People v. Cruz

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Lombardo, J.), rendered March 27, 1987, convicting him of murder in the second degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

With the exception of the contention that an analogy used by the prosecutor during summation suggested to the jury that the defense was seeking to create a smokescreen to *849obscure the issues in the case, none of the issues raised by the defendant on appeal has been preserved for appellate review…