People v. Buster

—Appeal by the defen*461dant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Demakos, J.), rendered September 25, 1996, convicting him of murder in the second degree, robbery in the first degree, robbery in the second degree, and criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant’s contention that the trial court erred in refusing to give a missing-witness charge is unpreserved for appellate review, as the defendant failed to request the charge and cannot rely on the request of a codefendant…