Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, 1998

People v. Carvalho

People v. Carvalho
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York · Decided April 29, 1998
249 A.D.2d 945; 673 N.Y.S.2d 277; 1998 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 5051
People v. Carvalho

Opinion of the Court

—Judgment unanimously affirmed. Memorandum: Defendant appeals from a judgment convicting him after a jury trial of arson in the second degree (Penal Law § 150.15). We reject his contention that Supreme Court erred in admitting the testimony of his stepdaughter that his wife exclaimed, “[h]e set the house on fire”, as she ran from the house immediately after the fire

*946started. That testimony was properly admitted under the present sense impression exception to the hearsay rule (see, People v Brown, 80 NY2d 729).

By objecting to the admission of his co-worker’s testimony on a ground different from the ground raised on appeal, defendant failed to preserve his present contention for our review (see, People v Osuna, 65 NY2d 822, 824; People v Avellanet, 242 AD2d 865). We decline to exercise our power to review defendant’s contention as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice (see, CPL 470.15 [6] [a]). (Appeal from Judgment of Supreme Court, Monroe County, Mark, J. — Arson, 2nd Degree.) Present — Lawton, J. P., Hayes, Callahan, Balio and Boehm, JJ.

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