People v. Chavez

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Richard T. Andrias, J.), rendered April 1, 1992, convicting defendant, following a jury trial, of rape in the first degree and sentencing him to a term of 5 to 15 years, unanimously affirmed.

The defendant’s assertion of prosecutorial misconduct during summation is largely unpreserved since counsel failed to object to the statements now complained of with one exception. (CPL 470.05 [2]; People v Rivera, 73 NY2d 941.) In any event we find defendant’s contentions to be meritless. Specifically, it should be noted that the prosecutor’s comments were a…