Court Opinion

ID: 5695761
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-12 15:33:31.472091+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:40:13.998313
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Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Lott, J.), rendered March 3, 2004, convicting him of gang assault in the first degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.
*483Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
The defendant failed to timely object to the prosecutor’s allegedly improper remarks during the opening statement, did not object to a curative instruction given by the trial court, and did not request a mistrial. As a result, the defendant did not preserve for appellate review his contention that certain comments made by the prosecutor during the opening statement deprived him of a fair trial (see People v Cunningham, 222 AD2d 727, 730 [1995]; People v Rizzo, 175 AD2d 221, 222 [1991]).
In any event, even assuming the prosecutor’s remarks were improper, the trial court’s prompt, sua sponte, curative instruction minimized any possible prejudice arising from the prosecutor’s remarks (see People v Alvarez, 304 AD2d 313 [2003]; People v Wellington, 267 AD2d 56, 57 [1999]). Crane, J.P., Krausman, Rivera and Dillon, JJ., concur.