People v. Diaz

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Arlene R. Silverman, J.), rendered June 15, 2006, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of robbery in the first degree, and sentencing him to a term of six years, unanimously affirmed.

By delivering an adverse inference charge, the court provided an adequate remedy for a detective’s destruction of certain photographs, and it properly exercised its discretion in denying defendant’s requests for other relief. The victim testified that defendant had held a knife to her neck during the crime, leaving a mark, and that a detective had photographed the…