People v. Jackson

Appeal by defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Tsoucalas, J.), rendered March 28, 1978, convicting him of robbery in the first degree (two counts) and criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence. Judgment affirmed. Although it was improper for a police officer witness to testify, on cross-examination by defendant, that defendant had admitted firing a gun, where that statement had been suppressed, the court immediately sustained an objection, struck that testimony from the record and gave a curative instruction to…