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[930 NE2d 765, 904 NYS2d 691]
    The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Fatin Johnson, Appellant.
    Decided June 10, 2010
    
      APPEARANCES OF COUNSEL
    
      Center for Appellate Litigation, New York City (Abigail Everett and Robert S. Dean of counsel), for appellant.
    
      Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., District Attorney, New York City (Susan Gliner of counsel), for respondent.
   OPINION OF THE COURT

Memorandum.

The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed.

Upon remittal from this Court (10 NY3d 875 [2008]), the Appellate Division employed the proper legal standard when it rejected defendant’s argument that the verdict convicting him of depraved indifference murder was against the weight of the evidence (67 AD3d 448 [1st Dept 2009]). Contrary to defendant’s contention, the Appellate Division was not required to evaluate the elements of depraved indifference murder as they were interpreted in certain cases decided prior to his trial. Defendant voiced no objection to the court’s charge as given and failed to request that any specific judicial interpretations of the elements be presented to the jury. Thus, the Appellate Division properly refused to consider such information when it “weighted] the evidence in light of the elements of the crime as charged to the [jury]” (People v Danielson, 9 NY3d 342, 349 [2007]).

Chief Judge Lippman and Judges Ciparick, Graffeo, Read, Smith, Pigott and Jones concur.

On review of submissions pursuant to section 500.11 of the Rules of the Court of Appeals (22 NYCRR 500.11), order affirmed in a memorandum.