Case ID: ad3d_23/html/0496-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Mark Jones, Appellant.
    [803 NYS2d 911]
   Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (J. Goldberg, J.), rendered October 24, 2002, convicting him of murder in the second degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant’s claim that consolidation of two indictments was improper is unpreserved for appellate review (see CPL 470.05 [2]; People v Peters, 242 AD2d 930 [1997]; People v McFadden, 232 AD2d 660 [1996]; People v Minor, 49 AD2d 828 [1975]). In any event, the defendant was not prejudiced by the consolidation (see People v Peters, supra).

Moreover, the defendant’s contentions that the prosecutor’s summation comments denied him a fair trial are either unpreserved for appellate review (see CPL 470.05 [2]), without merit, or constituted harmless error in light of the overwhelming evidence of the defendant’s guilt (see People v Crimmins, 36 NY2d 230 [1975]).

The defendant was not denied the effective assistance of counsel (see People v Baldi, 54 NY2d 137 [1981]). S. Miller, J.P., Krausman, Goldstein and Covello, JJ, concur.