People v. Bynum

Decision Date24 November 1987
Parties, 518 N.E.2d 4 The PEOPLE of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Gregory BYNUM, Appellant.
CourtNew York Court of Appeals Court of Appeals

Prior report: 125 A.D.2d 207, 509 N.Y.S.2d 321.

Marsha Taubenhaus and Philip L. Weinstein, New York City, for appellant.

Robert M. Morgenthau, Dist. Atty. (Gregory H. Mansfield and Norman Barclay, New York City, of counsel), for respondent.

MEMORANDUM.

The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed.

Defendant was convicted of robbery in the second degree (Penal Law § 160.10[2][b] ). The only issue defendant urges on this appeal--that the People failed to establish that the object he displayed to the victim appeared to be a lethal weapon--was not asserted at trial, and therefore has not been preserved for our review.

WACHTLER, C.J., and SIMONS, KAYE, ALEXANDER, TITONE, HANCOCK and BELLACOSA, JJ., concur.

Order affirmed in a memorandum.

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