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

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Richard Green, Appellant.
    [683 NYS2d 497]
   —Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Joan Sudolnik, J.), rendered October 5, 1995, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of burglary in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 3V2 to 7 years, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant’s claim that he was deprived of a fair trial because of improper remarks made by the prosecutor during summation has not been preserved for appellate review and we decline to review it in the interest of justice (People v Cuevas, 232 AD2d 234). Were we to review defendant’s claim, we would find that the challenged remarks consisted of fair comment on the evidence and appropriate responses to the arguments raised by defense counsel in summation (see, People v Overlee, 236 AD2d 133, lv denied 91 NY2d 976).

Defendant’s request to charge the lesser included offense of criminal trespass was properly denied. There was no reasonable view of the evidence that defendant committed the lesser included offense but not the greater, in that there was no evidence to support any illegal entry by defendant except an entry of larcenous intent as an essential element of the crime of burglary. The entry admitted by defendant in his own testimony, if the jury wished to credit it, showed only a legal permissive entry by him on the Friday before the Monday when the crime occurred, a period for which defendant offered a complete abili defense. Concur — Nardelli, J. P., Wallach, Rubin and Williams, JJ.