People v. Rosa
Opinion of the Court
—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (LeVine, J.), rendered April 20, 1992, convicting him of robbery in the third degree and criminal possession of stolen property in the fifth degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence. The appeal brings up for review the denial, after a hearing, of those branches of the defendant’s omnibus motion which were to suppress identification testimony and physical evidence.
Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
The defendant’s contention that the People failed to establish, at a hearing, probable cause for his arrest, is unpreserved
The defendant’s arguments regarding the prosecutor’s summation are largely unpreserved for appellate review (see, CPL 470.05 [2]). With respect to those comments which were preserved for appellate review, we find that they were either based on the evidence at trial or were made in fair response to the defense counsel’s summation, which suggested that the complainant fabricated his testimony, tailored it to that of a police officer, and invoked a language barrier when asked questions which favored the defendant (see, People v Ashwal, 39 NY2d 105; People v Galloway, 54 NY2d 396; People v Sykes, 151 AD2d 523, 524; People v Boyajian, 148 AD2d 740). Thompson, J. P., Rosenblatt, Pizzuto and Florio, JJ., concur.
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