Defendant was found guilty of snatching a chain from the complainant when she stopped while descending subway stairs at 34th Street and Sixth Avenue in Manhattan around 6:30 P.M. on July 16, 1987. He was arrested shortly afterward when he was found hiding under a car in a nearby garage.
Defendant's sole contention on appeal, that the prosecutor's summation deprived him of a fair trial by diminishing and shifting the burden of proof, injecting facts into the record...
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