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holding that "defendant contends that the evidence is legally insufficient to support the conviction" but made "only a general motion for a trial order of dismissal at the close of the People's case and thus . . . failed to preserve her contention for [appellate] review"
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No. KA 07-01565.
October 1, 2010.
Appeal from a judgment of the Oneida County Court (Barry M. Donalty, J.), rendered May 9, 2007. The judgment convicted defendant, upon a jury verdict, of murder in the second degree.
It is hereby ordered that the judgment so appealed from is unanimously affirmed.
D.J. J.A. CIRANDO, ESQS., SYRACUSE (JOHN A. CIRANDO OF COUNSEL), FOR DEFENDANT-APPELLANT.
SCOTT D. McNAMARA, DISTRICT ATTORNEY, UTICA (STEVEN G. COX OF COUNSEL), FOR RESPONDENT.
Present — Scudder, P.J., Martoche, Peradotto, Green and Gorski, JJ.
Memorandum: On appeal from a judgment convicting her, following a jury trial, of murder in the second degree (Penal Law § 125.25), defendant contends that the evidence is legally insufficient to support the conviction. Defendant made only a general motion for a trial order of dismissal at the close of the People's case and thus has failed to preserve her contention for our review ( see People v Gray, 86 NY2d 10, 19). Defendant also failed to preserve for our review her contention concerning the misstatement of County Court in its jury instructions concerning a date in the indictment ( see People v Green, 35 AD3d 1211, 1212, lv denied 8 NY3d 985), as well as her contention that she was denied a fair trial based on prosecutorial misconduct ( see People v Clark, 281 AD2d 947, 947-948, lv denied 96 NY2d 860), and we decline to exercise our power to review those contentions as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice ( see CPL 470.15 [a]). We have reviewed defendant's remaining contentions and conclude that they are without merit.