People v. Lattimore

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Jerome Hornblass, J.), rendered October 24, 1989, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of robbery in the third degree and grand larceny in the fourth degree and sentencing him to concurrent indeterminate prison terms of 2 to 6 years and 1 to 3 years, respectively, unanimously affirmed.

The court adequately instructed the jury not to draw any unfavorable inferences from defendant’s election not to testify by stating that the jury could not "hold * * * against” defendant the fact that he chose not to testify. In conjunction with this admonition,…