People v. Javier

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Jeffrey Atlas, J.), rendered January 6, 1997, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of arson in the third degree, and sentencing him to a term of 5 to 15 years, unanimously affirmed.

Each of defendant’s challenges to the court’s preliminary and main charges requires preservation (see, People v Thomas, 50 NY2d 467), and we decline to review these unpreserved claims in the interest of justice. Were we to review these claims, we would find that, although the court employed phrases that could be viewed in isolation as erroneous, the charge as a whole…