People v Tavarez
2010 NY Slip Op 00887 [70 AD3d 732]
February 2, 2010
Appellate Division, Second Department
As corrected through Wednesday, March 31, 2010


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

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

Richard A. Brown, District Attorney, Kew Gardens, N.Y. (John M. Castellano, Nicoletta J.Caferri, and Merri Turk Lasky of counsel), for respondent.

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County(Blumenfeld, J.), rendered September 12, 2007, convicting him of manslaughter in the firstdegree and criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, andimposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant's claim that the Supreme Court erred in submitting manslaughter in the firstdegree (see Penal Law § 125.20 [1]) as a lesser-included offense of murder in thesecond degree (see Penal Law § 125.25 [1]) is waived inasmuch as the defendantdid not object to the submission of first-degree manslaughter before the jury retired to deliberate(see CPL 300.50 [1]; People vMullins, 13 AD3d 397 [2004]; People v Dunbar, 145 AD2d 501, 502 [1988]).In any event, a reasonable view of the evidence supports a finding that the defendant intended tocause serious physical injury rather than death (see CPL 300.50 [1]; People vGlover, 57 NY2d 61, 64 [1982]; People v Pelsey, 60 AD3d 1088 [2009]; People v Batts,244 AD2d 345 [1997]; People v Davis, 181 AD2d 411, 411-412 [1992]).

The defendant's remaining contention is not preserved for appellate review and, in any event,is without merit. Fisher, J.P., Florio, Belen and Austin, JJ., concur.


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