Case Name: The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Ricky Sellars, Appellant
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1999-06-15
Citations: 262 A.D.2d 130
Docket Number: 
Parties: The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Ricky Sellars, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 262
Pages: 130–130

Head Matter:
The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Ricky Sellars, Appellant.
[691 NYS2d 762]

Opinion:
—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Colleen McMahon, J.), rendered August 20, 1997, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a persistent violent felony offender, to a term of 7 years to life, unanimously affirmed.
Defendant was not deprived of a fair trial by the fact that the court introduced his counsel to the jury panel as a Legal Aid Society attorney. A curative instruction would have been a sufficient remedy, but defendant declined the court's offer to give such an instruction. In any event, in the circumstances here presented, this isolated remark could not have affected the verdict. Concur — Rosenberger, J. P., Tom, Rubin, Saxe and Buckley, JJ.