People v. McCorkle
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
— Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Agresta, J.), rendered February 9, 1984, convicting him of attempted murder in the second degree and criminal possession of a *701weapon in the fourth degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.
Judgment affirmed.
The prosecutor’s statement during his summation that the trial was "a search for the truth * * * not a search for the reasonable doubt” was improper (People v Brown, 111 AD2d 248, 250). However, in view of the court’s subsequent extensive instructions on the presumption of innocence, the prosecution’s…
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