People v. Caballero
Opinion of the Court
Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Paul Bookson, J.), rendered December 23, 1991, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree and sentencing him to a term of 4 Vi to 13 Vi years, unanimously affirmed.
The trial court properly determined that the failure of the prosecution to furnish the defense with a list of mug shots resembling defendant was attributable to either loss or destruction. The court considered the degree of prosecutorial fault and resulting prejudice to the defendant, and imposed an appropriate sanction in the form of an adverse inference charge (People v Banch, 80 NY2d 610, 616; People v Morton, 189 AD2d 488, 492-493).
Defendant failed to raise any challenge to the procedures
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