PEOPLE v. WILLIAMS


46 N.Y.2d 1070 (1979)

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Robert Joseph Williams, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided April 5, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter L. Yellin, Public Defender (James M. Zaccaria of counsel), for appellant.

Patrick D. Monserrate, District Attorney (Michael R. Wright of counsel), for respondent.

Chief Judge COOKE and Judges JASEN, GABRIELLI, JONES, WACHTLER and FUCHSBERG concur.


MEMORANDUM.

The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed.

Though the prosecutor's summation comment suggesting that the defendant may have engaged in other criminal conduct was prejudicial in nature, the Trial Judge's lucid curative instructions to the jury, following which neither any further objection nor any request for a mistrial was made, must be deemed to have corrected the error to the defendant...

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