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

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Julio Morales, Appellant.
    [623 NYS2d 158]
   —Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Rappaport, J.), rendered March 15, 1993, convicting him of murder in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant’s contention that the evidence was legally insufficient to establish his guilt is unpreserved for appellate review (see, CPL 470.05 [2]; People v Udzinski, 146 AD2d 245). In any event, viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution (see, People v Contes, 60 NY2d 620), we find that it was legally sufficient to establish the defendant’s guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. Moreover, upon the exercise of our factual review power, we are satisfied that the verdict of guilt was not against the weight of the evidence (see, CPL 470.15 [5]). Mangano, P. J., Bracken, Altman and Goldstein, JJ., concur.