People v. Lara

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Daniel FitzGerald, J.), rendered April 7, 1994, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of burglary in the second degree and possession of burglar’s tools, and sentencing him, as a second violent felony offender, to concurrent prison terms of l1!2 to 15 years and 1 year, respectively, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant’s claim that the court’s instruction to the jury that they "should try very hard to come to an agreement that would speak the truth as far as the facts in this case are concerned” impermissibly shifted the burden of proof is unpreserved…