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

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Lamont Wolfe, Appellant.
    [664 NYS2d 358]
   —Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Buchter, J.), rendered March 27, 1995, convicting him of robbery in the second degree and assault in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant’s contention, that he was denied a fair trial when the prosecutor remarked during opening statements that a police officer knew the defendant, is without merit. The trial court immediately sustained the defense counsel’s objection to this isolated comment and issued a curative instruction, which the jury is presumed to have followed (see, People v Berg, 59 NY2d 294, 299-300).

The defendant’s remaining contentions are either unpreserved for appellate review or without merit. Pizzuto, J. P., Santucci, Joy and Florio, JJ., concur.