People v Dunn
2008 NY Slip Op 07004 [54 AD3d 871]
September 16, 2008
Appellate Division, Second Department
As corrected through Wednesday, October 29, 2008


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

[*1]Lynn W. L. Fahey, New York, N.Y. (Kendra L. Hutchinson of counsel), for appellant.

Charles J. Hynes, District Attorney, Brooklyn, N.Y. (Leonard Joblove and Linda Breen ofcounsel), for respondent.

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Sullivan, J.),rendered February 23, 2006, convicting her of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the thirddegree and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, upon a jury verdict,and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant's contention that she was deprived of a fair trial because the prosecutor madeimproper remarks during her opening statement and summation and otherwise engaged inmisconduct during the trial is unpreserved for appellate review (see CPL 470.05 [2]; People v Hollenquest, 48 AD3d592 [2008], lv denied 10 NY3d 864 [2008]). In any event, the challenged remarksand conduct either were responsive to arguments made by defense counsel, constituted faircomment on the evidence, or otherwise did not deprive the defendant of a fair trial (see People v Olivo, 23 AD3d 584[2005]).

The defendant's contention that she was denied the effective assistance of counsel basedsolely on her attorney's failure to object to the alleged prosecutorial misconduct is without merit(see People v [*2]Benevento, 91 NY2d 708, 712 [1998];People v Robbins, 48 AD3d711 [2008], lv denied 10 NY3d 869 [2008]; People v Gonzalez, 44 AD3d 790, 791 [2007]; People vSerrano, 163 AD2d 66, 68 [1990]). Prudenti, P.J., Ritter, Florio and McCarthy, JJ., concur.


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