People v. Briggs

— Judgment of the Supreme Court, Bronx County (Joseph Cerbone, J.), rendered on March 7, 1988, convicting defendant, following a jury trial, of robbery in the first degree and sentencing him, as a predicate violent felony offender, to a term of 10 to 20 years to run concurrently with two other sentences imposed on the same date, is unanimously affirmed.

Defendant claims that he was deprived of a fair trial by the prosecutor’s summation which purportedly ridiculed his testimony, generally denigrated the defense, and vouched for the complainant. However, most of the challenged statements were a…