PEOPLE v. BURGESS


66 A.D.2d 667 (1978)

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Harry Burgess, Appellant

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department.

December 5, 1978


The only error claimed on appeal is that two police officers testified that the eyewitness victim had identified the defendant as the perpetrator of the robbery and that this constituted "bolstering" under the rule of People v Trowbridge (305 N.Y. 471). The evidence and reference to it in the summation were not objected to. In any event, in our view, the error was harmless. The identification...

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