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

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Jason Grant, Appellant.
    [863 NYS2d 377]
   Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Chun, J.), rendered October 16, 2006, convicting him of burglary in the first degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

With one exception, the defendant’s claims of prosecutorial misconduct are unpreserved for appellate review (see CPL 470.05 [2]). With respect to the only preserved issue, the court clearly instructed the jury that the burden of proof remained with the People and did not shift to the defendant (see People v Farino, 21 AD3d 427 [2005]). In any event, as to the unpreserved issues, the challenged remarks either were a fair response to the defendant’s summation (see People v Galloway, 54 NY2d 396 [1981]), or constituted harmless error (see People v Crimmins, 36 NY2d 230, 242 [1975]; People v Adam, 50 AD3d 1153 [2008], Iv denied 10 NY3d 931 [2008]). Rivera, J.R, Lifson, Santucci and Miller, JJ., concur.