Court Opinion

ID: 5913557
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-13 04:02:50.768146+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:46:06.846870
License: Public Domain

— Judgment unanimously affirmed. Memorandum: On appeal from a judgment convicting him of felony murder and first degree robbery, defendant’s attorney and defendant pro se raise several claims, some unpreserved and none requiring reversal. The trial court properly received the testimony of the People’s expert concerning the bullet fragments because it was not speculative. The evidence amply supported the convictions. The prosecutor’s reference to the codefendant’s guilty plea did not prejudice the defendant because the codefendant acknowledged the plea in his trial testimony, and defendant’s attorney used the codefendant’s plea to impeach him. On this record defendant’s sentence is not excessive. (Appeal from judgment of Monroe County Court, Bergin, J. — murder, second degree.) Present — Dillon, P. J., Denman, Boomer, Green and Lawton, JJ.