People v. Jefferson

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Gold*776man, J.), rendered October 24, 1989, convicting him of robbery in the first degree (two counts), upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant contends that his right to remain silent was compromised when the prosecutor improperly questioned him with regard to his postarrest silence, and that he was otherwise deprived of a fair trial because of prosecutorial misconduct. However, defense counsel immediately objected to the one question propounded concerning the…