Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, 1999

People v. Smith

People v. Smith
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York · Decided October 5, 1999
265 A.D.2d 158; 696 N.Y.S.2d 411; 1999 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 9720
People v. Smith

Opinion of the Court

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Ronald Zweibel, J.), rendered January 17, 1996, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of two counts of burglary in the second degree, and sentencing *159him, as a persistent violent felony offender, to concurrent terms of 20 years to life, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant’s challenges to the court’s circumstantial evidence charge are unpreserved (see, People v Whalen, 59 NY2d 273, 280), and we decline to review them in the interest of justice. Were we to review these claims, we would find that the charge as a whole conveyed the proper standards.

We perceive no abuse of sentencing discretion. Concur — Sullivan, J. P., Williams, Wallach, Lerner and Friedman, JJ.

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