People v Gonzalez
2007 NY Slip Op 07858 [44 AD3d 871]
October 16, 2007
Appellate Division, Second Department
As corrected through Wednesday, December 12, 2007


The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
v
JoseGonzalez, Appellant.

[*1]Lynn W. L. Fahey, New York, N.Y. (Sarah J. Berger of counsel), for appellant, andappellant pro se.

Charles J. Hynes, District Attorney, Brooklyn, N.Y. (Leonard Joblove, Shulamit Rosenblum,and Maria Park of counsel), for respondent.

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Brennan, J.),rendered May 17, 2004, convicting him of attempted murder in the second degree and criminalpossession of a weapon in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant's contention that the admission of certain tape-recorded 911 calls intoevidence violated his rights under the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment of theUnited States Constitution is unpreserved for appellate review (see CPL 470.05 [2]; People v Mitchell, 35 AD3d 507[2006]; People v Cato, 22 AD3d863 [2005]). Similarly, the defendant's claims that he was deprived of a fair trial byprosecutorial misconduct during summation are unpreserved for appellate review. We decline toreview those contentions in the exercise of our interest of justice jurisdiction (see CPL470.15 [6] [a]).

The defendant's remaining contention, raised in his supplemental pro se brief, that he wasdeprived of the effective assistance of counsel is based, in part, on matter dehors the record,which cannot be reviewed on direct appeal (see People v Kadry, 30 AD3d 440 [2006]; People v Johnson, 30 AD3d 439[2006]). To the extent that we are able to review those claims, the defendant received theeffective assistance of counsel (see People v Benevento, 91 NY2d 708 [1998]; Peoplev Baldi, 54 NY2d 137, 147 [1981]). Schmidt, J.P., Rivera, Krausman and Florio, JJ., concur.


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