People v. Coast

Judgment unanimously affirmed. Memorandum: Of the several issues raised by defendants on these appeals, only one requires comment. The record indicates that the court failed to inform defendants before summation, as the statute requires, of the-counts and offenses it intended to submit to the jury (see CPL 300.10, subd 3; 300.30, subd 1). However, defendants were not denied their right to an effective summation because the only issue in the case was one which was the same for all counts regardless of what crimes were actually submitted to the jury, i.e., identification, and because the…