People v. Smith
Opinion of the Court
—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Charles Tejada, J.), rendered August 4, 1997, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of robbery in the first and second degrees, and sentencing him, as a second violent felony offender, to concurrent terms of 10 years, unanimously affirmed.
Defendant failed to preserve his present claim that the court should have given a standard circumstantial evidence charge, or, in the alternative, some discussion of circumstantial evidence and its evaluation and we decline to review it in the interest of justice. Were we to review this claim, we would find that the court was not required to give any type of circumstantial evidence charge where the evidence of defendant’s accesso
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