People v. Encarnacion

— Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Ira F. Beal, J.), rendered October 30, 1990, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 4 Vi to 9 years, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant failed to take exception to any portion of the trial court’s jury charge on criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, and thus failed to preserve a claim of error for appellate review as a matter of law (CPL 470.05; People v Velasquez, 76 NY2d 905, 908).…