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PEOPLE v. McCORKLE

119 A.D.2d 700 (1986)

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Cyrus McCorkle, Appellant

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

April 14, 1986

Judgment affirmed.

The prosecutor's statement during his summation that the trial was "a search for the truth * * * not a search for the reasonable doubt" was improper (People v Brown, 111 A.D.2d 248, 250). However, in view of the court's subsequent extensive instructions on the presumption of innocence, the prosecution's burden of proof, and the meaning of "reasonable doubt", and...

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