People v. Rivers

— Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Marras, J.),- rendered August 2, 2006, convicting him of arson in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant’s contention that he was deprived of a fair trial as a result of the prosecutor’s improper cross-examination of the defendant is unpreserved for appellate review (see CPL 470.05 [2]; People v Thompson, 62 AD3d 817, 818 [2009]). In any event, any error arising from the prosecutor’s cross-examination of the defendant was harmless, as there…