People v. Punter

—Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Martin Marcus, J.), rendered May 29, 1992, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of manslaughter in the first degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 101/2 to 21 years, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant’s current claims of improper admission of evidence of his pre-arrest silence are unpreserved (CPL 470.05). In any event, defendant’s evasive answers were properly admitted as evidence of his consciousness of guilt (People v Holland, 174 AD2d 508, 509-510, Iv denied 78 NY2d 1011). As additional reference to defendant’s…