People v. Martinez

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Herbert I. Altman, J), rendered August 19, 2003, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of two counts of burglary in the first degree, and sentencing him, as a persistent felony offender, to concurrent terms of 20 years to life, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant’s challenge to the court’s intoxication charge is unpreserved and we decline to review it in the interest of justice. Although there was a brief precharge colloquy concerning the relationship between intent and lack of memory, defendant’s remarks were insufficiently specific to preserve the…