People v. Lloyd

Roman, J.,

dissents and votes to affirm the judgment, with the following memorandum: While the majority finds that the prosecutor’s questioning and summation remarks improperly created the impression that Patricia Drake had implicated the defendant in the shooting, I disagree with the conclusion that these errors require reversal of the defendant’s convictions. In my view, the other evidence of the defendant’s guilt, which included the testimony of three disinterested eyewitnesses to the shooting and additional corroborating evidence, was overwhelming, and there was no reasonable possibility…