Opinion
2001-09042.
November 14, 2005.
Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Orange County (DeRosa, J.), rendered October 11, 2001, convicting him of manslaughter in the second degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.
Steven A. Feldman, Uniondale, N.Y., for appellant.
Francis D. Phillips II, District Attorney, Goshen, N.Y. (Daniel M. Reback of counsel), for respondent.
Before: Schmidt, J.P., Cozier, Rivera and Fisher, JJ., concur.
Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
The testimony of a detective that the defendant's name came up in the course of investigating the criminal occurrence was not improper ( see People v. Brown, 262 AD2d 570, affd 95 NY2d 776; People v. Williams, 193 AD2d 826, 827-828; People v. Armstead, 134 AD2d 601). Also, the trial court promptly cured any prejudice resulting from the detective's testimony about a reference to the defendant made by a nontestifying witness when it instructed the jury to consider this evidence only for the purpose of understanding the detective's conduct in response thereto ( see People v. Elliott, 256 AD2d 418; People v. Griffin, 246 AD2d 668).
The defendant's remaining contention is without merit.