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The PEOPLE, etc., respondent, v. Jason CARTER, appellant.
Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Buchter, J.), rendered January 25, 2005, convicting him of grand larceny in the fourth degree and criminal possession of stolen property in the fourth degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.
ORDERED that the judgment is affirmed.
The trial court properly declined to submit petit larceny and criminal possession of stolen property in the fifth degree as lesser-included offenses, since there was no reasonable view of the evidence that the defendant committed the lesser offenses without having committed the greater offenses (see CPL 300.50[1]; People v. Glover, 57 N.Y.2d 61, 63, 453 N.Y.S.2d 660, 439 N.E.2d 376; People v. Scarborough, 49 N.Y.2d 364, 369, 371, 373, 426 N.Y.S.2d 224, 402 N.E.2d 1127; People v. Miller, 156 A.D.2d 265, 548 N.Y.S.2d 654).
Furthermore, the defendant's contention that the prosecutor's remarks on summation constituted reversible error is unpreserved for appellate review. The defendant either failed to object to the remarks, made only a general objection, failed to request curative instructions, or moved belatedly for a mistrial (see CPL 470.05[2]; People v. Williams, 27 A.D.3d 673, 811 N.Y.S.2d 124, lv. denied 7 N.Y.3d 796, 821 N.Y.S.2d 826, 854 N.E.2d 1290; People v. Malave, 7 A.D.3d 542, 775 N.Y.S.2d 588). In any event, the challenged remarks, for the most part, were fair comment on the evidence, permissible rhetorical comment, or responsive to the defense counsel's summation (see People v. Rhodes, 11 A.D.3d 487, 488, 782 N.Y.S.2d 788; People v. Jones, 294 A.D.2d 517, 517-518, 742 N.Y.S.2d 562). To the extent that the prosecutor may have exceeded the bounds of permissible rhetorical comment, any error was harmless.
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Decided: January 09, 2007
Court: Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Second Department, New York.
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