People v. Parker

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Alvin Schlesinger, J.), rendered October 15, 1992, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of rape in the first degree, and sentencing him, as a second violent offender, to a term of 81/2 to 17 years, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant failed to preserve, by specific objection, his present contention that the prosecutor’s summation improperly appealed to the jurors’ emotions and improperly asserted that defendant had a propensity to commit the crime of which he was *108charged (CPL 470.05 12]; People v Balls, 69 NY2d 641), and we decline to review it in the…