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

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v John P. Dalton, Appellant.
    [629 NYS2d 86]
   Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Hall, J.), rendered March 2, 1993, convicting him of murder in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

We reject the defendant’s contention that the trial court erred by refusing to admit into evidence a tape recording of a 911 telephone call that the defendant placed minutes after the shooting, since the record indicates that he had "the time to reflect and possibly fabricate a story” (People v Wilson, 123 AD2d 457, 458; see, People v Sostre, 51 NY2d 958). Accordingly, the recording was not admissible into evidence as either an excited utterance or a present sense impression.

The sentence imposed was not excessive (see, People v Suitte, 90 AD2d 80).

We have reviewed the defendant’s remaining contentions and find them to be without merit. Miller, J. P., Altman, Gold-stein and Florio, JJ., concur.