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People v. Morales

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department
Nov 17, 2003
1 A.D.3d 530 (N.Y. App. Div. 2003)

Opinion

2002-01399

Submitted October 28, 2003.

November 17, 2003.

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Blumenfeld, J.), rendered January 17, 2002, convicting him of robbery in the second degree (two counts), upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Lynn W. L. Fahey, New York, N.Y. (Melissa S. Horlick of counsel), for appellant.

Richard A. Brown, District Attorney, Kew Gardens, N.Y. (John M. Castellano, Jeanette Lifschitz, and Beverly Kalman of counsel), for respondent.

Before: DAVID S. RITTER, J.P., NANCY E. SMITH, GLORIA GOLDSTEIN, HOWARD MILLER, JJ.


DECISION ORDER

ORDERED that the judgment is affirmed.

The majority of the defendant's challenges to the prosecutor's remarks on summation are unpreserved for appellate review ( see People v. Campbell, 271 A.D.2d 693; People v. Lamour, 203 A.D.2d 388). In any event, the remarks made by the prosecutor do not require reversal. They were proper responses to arguments made by the defense counsel during summation and were fair comment on the evidence ( see People v. Campbell, supra; People v. Lamour, supra). Moreover, "those comments to which objections were registered were followed by curative instructions, subsequent to which the defendant neither asked for further curative instructions nor moved for a mistrial, thereby indicating that the court had sufficiently cured any error to his satisfaction" ( People v. Rosario, 195 A.D.2d 577).

RITTER, J.P., SMITH, GOLDSTEIN and H. MILLER, JJ., concur.


Summaries of

People v. Morales

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department
Nov 17, 2003
1 A.D.3d 530 (N.Y. App. Div. 2003)
Case details for

People v. Morales

Case Details

Full title:THE PEOPLE, ETC., respondent, v. ARTURO MORALES, appellant

Court:Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department

Date published: Nov 17, 2003

Citations

1 A.D.3d 530 (N.Y. App. Div. 2003)
767 N.Y.S.2d 267

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