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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Solon Hayes, Appellant.
    [849 NYS2d 166]
   Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Hollie, J.), rendered June 19, 2006, convicting him of promoting prostitution in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant’s contention that the evidence was legally insufficient to establish his guilt of promoting prostitution in the third degree is unpreserved for appellate review, since he failed to address any specific legal errors as a basis for dismissal of those counts in the trial court (see CPL 470.05 [2]; People v Gray, 86 NY2d 10, 19 [1995]). In any event, viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution (see People v Contes, 60 NY2d 620 [1983]), we find that it was legally sufficient to establish the defendant’s guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. Moreover, upon the exercise of our factual review power (see CPL 470.15 [5]), we are satisfied that the verdict of guilt was not against the weight of the evidence (see People v Romero, 7 NY3d 633 [2006]). Spolzino, J.P., Skelos, Florio and Angiolillo, JJ., concur.