People v. Smith

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Westchester County (LaCava, J.), rendered January 7, 1992, convicting him of robbery in the second degree and grand larceny in the fourth degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

*440The defendant asserts that the prosecutor, in cross-examining the defendant, crossed the boundaries of propriety by compelling the defendant to state that the police officer "lied” (People v Sansevero, 185 AD2d 256).

We conclude that under the circumstances of this case the cross-examination was at the edge of…