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People v. Garcia

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department
Jan 9, 1989
146 A.D.2d 584 (N.Y. App. Div. 1989)

Opinion

January 9, 1989

Appeal from the Supreme Court, Queens County (Demakos, J.).


Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant is not entitled to reversal on the ground of prosecutorial misconduct. The record reveals that the summation of the prosecutrix was, in large part, a response to defense counsel's attack on the credibility of the sole complaining witness. Nor did her brief questioning of the defendant with respect to where he was born and when, not how, he entered this country, give rise to the inference that the defendant was an illegal alien (see, People v Torriente, 131 A.D.2d 793, 794).

We also find that the evidence supported the defendant's conviction of reckless endangerment in the first degree. The complainant testified that the defendant put a gun to his head and that he thereafter heard a clicking noise, and further testimony established that the gun was partially loaded and operational, and that one of the cartridges may have misfired.

We have considered the defendant's remaining contentions and find them to be without merit. Thompson, J.P., Rubin, Spatt and Balletta, JJ., concur.


Summaries of

People v. Garcia

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department
Jan 9, 1989
146 A.D.2d 584 (N.Y. App. Div. 1989)
Case details for

People v. Garcia

Case Details

Full title:THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. CARLOS GARCIA…

Court:Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department

Date published: Jan 9, 1989

Citations

146 A.D.2d 584 (N.Y. App. Div. 1989)

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