People v Grant
2008 NY Slip Op 07007 [54 AD3d 872]
September 16, 2008
Appellate Division, Second Department
As corrected through Wednesday, October 29, 2008


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

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

Charles J. Hynes, District Attorney, Brooklyn, N.Y. (Leonard Joblove, Amy Appelbaum, andA. Brendan Stewart of counsel), for respondent.

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 forappellate review (see CPL 470.05 [2]). With respect to the only preserved issue, the courtclearly instructed the jury that the burden of proof remained with the People and did not shift tothe defendant (see People v Farino,21 AD3d 427 [2005]). In any event, as to the unpreserved issues, the challenged remarkseither were a fair response to the defendant's summation (see People v Galloway, 54NY2d 396 [1981]), or constituted harmless error (see People v Crimmins, 36 NY2d 230,242 [1975]; People v Adam, 50AD3d 1153 [2008], lv denied 10 NY3d 931 [2008]). Rivera, J.P., Lifson, Santucciand Miller, JJ., concur.


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