People v. James

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Tomei, J.), rendered May 14, 2002, convicting him of murder in the second degree, criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, and criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant failed to preserve for appellate review the claimed instances of prosecutorial misconduct raised on appeal, and we decline to review them in the exercise of our interest of justice jurisdiction (see People v Balls, 69 NY2d…