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

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Luis Nunes, Appellant.
   — Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Hellenbrand, J.), rendered January 19, 1982, convicting him of murder in the second degree (two counts), and criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Judgment affirmed.

The ambiguous reference by a prosecution witness to an unrelated robbery for which the defendant was arrested does not require reversal where it was elicited by defense counsel during cross-examination and where no curative instruction was sought (see, People v Blackshear, 112 AD2d 1044; People v King, 91 AD2d 1073). The prosecutor’s question regarding the same unrelated robbery on redirect examination merely reiterated the testimony previously elicited by defense counsel at his peril, and thus did not result in a denial of the defendant’s right to a fair trial.

The defendant’s remaining contentions are either without merit or unpreserved for appellate review. Gibbons, J. P., Thompson, Brown and Weinstein, JJ., concur.