People v. Shivers

—Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Joseph Fisch, J.), rendered March 5, 1998, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of robbery in the second degree and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 13 years, unanimously affirmed.

While the court’s charge should have included, as requested by defendant, some balancing language conveying the principle that a reasonable doubt could arise from the insufficiency or lack of evidence (see People v Corbin, 214 AD2d 318, lv denied 86 NY2d 780; compare People v Reinoso, 257 AD2d 484, lv denied 93 NY2d 901), the error was harmless in…