People v. Williams

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Grajales, J.), rendered March 3, 1987, convicting him of robbery in the first degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

*760Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The gunpoint robbery of which the defendant stands convicted took place in a well-lit hallway of an apartment building. The victim identified the defendant as the assailant within 10 minutes of the occurrence, in part because the defendant had a gold tooth and a distinctive scar on his left cheek.

The defendant contends that the prosecutor’s reference in…