People v. Hester
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Garnett, J.), rendered February 14, 2013, convicting him of robbery in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.
Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
The Supreme Court did not improvidently exercise its discretion in denying the defendant’s request for an adverse inference charge as a sanction for the People’s failure to produce an imitation gun at trial. The People showed that the imitation gun was stored at the property clerk’s Erie Basin facility in Red Hook, Brooklyn, and could not be produced…
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