Case ID: ad2d_225/html/0564-02.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Roberto Rodriguez, Appellant.
    [639 NYS2d 725]
   The defendant’s contentions regarding the prosecutor’s summation at the trial under Indictment No. 1060/86 are, in part, unpreserved for appellate review and, in any event, all are without merit.

Because the trial court repeatedly recited that the People must prove the defendant’s guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, the charge as a whole conveyed the proper standard of proof (see, People v Talk Kwung, 186 AD2d 365).

In view of our determination with respect to the defendant’s judgment of conviction under Indictment No. 1060/86, upon a jury verdict, there is no basis for vacatur of his plea under Indictment No. 807/80 (cf., People v Clark, 45 NY2d 432). Mangano, P. J., Bracken, Copertino and Pizzuto, JJ., concur.