People v. Ruberto

The witness Guglielmiui implicated the defendant in the commission of the crime of which he stands convicted and, even if he were deemed an accomplice, defendant’s false stories, evincing as they do a consciousness of guilt on his part, constituted—in the light of the entire record before us — the essential corroborative evidence for accomplice testimony. (See People v. Leyra, 1 N Y 2d 199, 208; People v. Deitsch, 237 N. Y. 300, 303.) We would merely add that, in reaching our decision to affirm, we considered the defendant’s contention that the prosecutor acted improperly in making certain…