People v. Richards

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (David Stadtmauer, J), rendered February 25, 2005, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of robbery in the first degree and sentencing him to a term of 10 years, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly excluded evidence of alleged third-party culpability, the probative value of which was minimal and was outweighed by its prejudicial effect (see People v Schulz, 4 NY3d 521, 528-529 [2005]; People v Mane, 36 AD3d 1079 [2007]). Inasmuch as defendant did not assert a constitutional right to introduce the excluded evidence, his constitutional argument is…