People v Hooker
2010 NY Slip Op 02813 [71 AD3d 1160]
March 30, 2010
Appellate Division, Second Department
As corrected through Wednesday, April 28, 2010


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

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

Charles J. Hynes, District Attorney, Brooklyn, N.Y. (Leonard Joblove, Anthea H. Bruffee,and Allison Ageyeva of counsel), for respondent.

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Mullen, J.),rendered January 8, 2008, convicting him of rape in the first degree, sodomy in the first degree(two counts), sexual abuse in the first degree, and burglary in the first degree, upon a juryverdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant's contentions with respect to the comments made by the prosecutor duringsummation are unpreserved for appellate review since the defendant either failed to object tothem or, after an objection was sustained, failed either to request further curative instructions orto timely move for a mistrial based on those comments, and we decline to review them in theexercise of our interest of justice jurisdiction (see CPL 470.05 [2]; People vBalls, 69 NY2d 641 [1986]; People v Torres, 46 AD3d 925 [2007]; People vArnold, 170 AD2d 610 [1991]).

The sentence imposed was not excessive (see People v Suitte, 90 AD2d 80, 85[1982]). Dillon, J.P., Balkin, Dickerson and Lott, JJ., concur.


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