People v. Hamilton

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Riviezzo, J.), rendered August 26, 2013, convicting him of assault in the first degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant’s contention that the prosecutor’s comments during summation deprived him of a fair trial is unpreserved for appellate review (see CPL 470.05 [2]). In any event, most of the prosecutor’s comments were not improper, since they constituted fair response to the defendant’s attack on the credibility of the People’s witnesses, or were within…