People v. Sampson

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Dennis Edwards, Jr., J., at trial and sentence), rendered on June 17, 1987, which convicted defendant, after a jury trial, of nine counts of robbery in the first degree and sentenced him to nine concurrent indeterminate terms of from 5 to 15 years’ imprisonment, unanimously affirmed.

The defendant’s claims of prosecutorial misconduct, in allegedly permitting witnesses to make repeated references to defendant’s uncharged crime of drug possession and to improperly portray themselves as experts on drug addiction and insanity, and defendant’s claim that…