PEOPLE v. GREEN


268 A.D.2d 443 (2000)

702 N.Y.S.2d 317

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. SHAWN GREEN, Appellant.

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

Decided January 10, 2000.


Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The trial court properly sustained the prosecutor's objections to those portions of defense counsel's opening statement in which he attacked the reliability of the complainant's identification of the defendant and suggested that the police planted evidence on the defendant to bolster a weak case. The remarks exceeded the bounds of an appropriate opening statement (see, People v Valentin, 211 A.D.2d 509...

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