People v. Hoden

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Albert Lorenzo, J.), rendered September 5, 2007, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a persistent violent felony offender, to a term of 17 years to life, unanimously affirmed.

Because defendant’s specific claim of evidentiary deficiency was not presented to the trial court, his argument that the verdict was based on legally insufficient evidence is unpreserved, and we decline to review it in the interest of justice. As an alternative holding, we also reject it on the…