People v. Perez

by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Cohen, J.), rendered April 4, 1985, convicting him of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, unlawful imprisonment in the second degree, and menacing, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant argues that during his summation the prosecutor improperly vouched for the credibility of a prosecution witness and denigrated the theory of the defense which emphasized the unreliability of this witness’s testimony, thus depriving him of a fair trial. He also…