People v. Kelley

— Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Friedmann, J.), rendered August 29, 1986, convicting him of burglary in the second degree and criminal possession of stolen property in the third degree, after a nonjury trial, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant claims that the independent evidence tending to connect him with the crime, as required by CPL 60.22 (1), was legally insufficient to corroborate the testimony of the accomplice. We disagree. The independent corroborative evidence need only "tend * * * to connect” the…