People v. Robinson

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Joan Carey, J.), rendered January 14, 1992, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of grand larceny in the fourth degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of lVi to 3 years, unanimously affirmed.

Contrary to defendant’s argument, the instruction that a reasonable doubt "is a doubt which if you were called upon, you could give a reasonable or a rational explanation” did not improperly impose upon the jurors a duty to articulate the reasons for their doubt, but merely "defined the required degree of clarity and coherence of thought, focusing on the jurors’ intellectual effort” (People v Brin, 190 AD2d 512 , lv denied 82 NY2d 751 , citing People v Antommarchi, 80 NY2d 247 , 251-252; see also, People v Uraca, 195 AD2d 377 , lv denied 82 NY2d 728 ; People v Jackson, 155 AD2d 329 , affd 76 NY2d 908 ). Concur—Sullivan, J. P., Wallach, Ross, Rubin and Tom, JJ.