People v. Rhodes

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Westchester County (Scarpino, J.), rendered April 24, 1992, convicting him of robbery in the third degree and grand larceny in the fourth degree (two counts), upon a jury verdict and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

Claiming that the jacket the victim was wearing on the date of the crime constituted exculpatory evidence, the defendant asserts that the prosecutor laundered the jacket in violation of the rule of Brady v Maryland (373 US 83). Given the overwhelming evidence of the defendant’s guilt and the…