PEOPLE v. ZACHARY (2005)

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Orange County (DeRosa, J.), rendered October 11, 2001, convicting him of manslaughter in the second degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

ORDERED that the judgment is affirmed.

The testimony of a detective that the defendant's name came up in the course of investigating the criminal occurrence was not improper (see People v. Brown, 262 A.D.2d 570, 694 N.Y.S.2d 666, affd. 95 N.Y.2d 776, 710 N.Y.S.2d 837, 732 N.E.2d 944;  People v. Williams, 193 A.D.2d 826, 827-828, 598 N.Y.S.2d 298;  People v. Armstead, 134 A.D.2d 601, 521 N.Y.S.2d 499).   Also, the trial court promptly cured any prejudice resulting from the detective's testimony about a reference to the defendant made by a non-testifying witness when it instructed the jury to consider this evidence only for the purpose of understanding the detective's conduct in response thereto (see People v. Elliott, 256 A.D.2d 418, 682 N.Y.S.2d 625;  People v. Griffin, 246 A.D.2d 668, 668 N.Y.S.2d 395).

The defendant's remaining contention is without merit.