People v. Santos

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Demakos, J.), rendered October 1, 1997, convicting him of murder in the second degree and criminal contempt in the first degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant has not preserved for appellate review his contention that the trial court’s failure to instruct the jury that testimony of his prior violent acts against the murder victim were admitted into evidence for only a limited purpose constituted reversible error (see, CPL 470.05 [2]; People v Udzinski,…