Opinion
April 13, 1998
Appeal from the County Court, Nassau County (DeRiggi, J.).
Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
While the prosecutor improperly stated during summation that the jury should consider why only two lines of the complainant's prior statement to the police were admitted into evidence, any prejudice to the defendant was eliminated when the court immediately sustained the defendant's objection and gave a curative instruction ( see, People v. Gibbs, 59 N.Y.2d 930; People v. Berg, 59 N.Y.2d 294; People v. Galloway, 54 N.Y.2d 396). Moreover, any error was harmless in light of the overwhelming evidence of the defendant's guilt ( see, People v. Crimmins, 36 N.Y.2d 230).
The defendant's remaining contentions are unpreserved for appellate review, without merit, or do not require reversal.
Mangano, P.J., Copertino, Thompson and McGinity, JJ., concur.