Opinion
1397
June 18, 2002.
Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Frank Torres, J.), rendered March 4, 1999, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of burglary in the second degree, and sentencing him, as a persistent violent felony offender, to a term of 16 years to life, unanimously affirmed.
ASMA WARSI CHAUDRY, for Respondent.
ADRIENNE HALE, for Defendant-appellant.
Nardelli, J.P., Mazzarelli, Sullivan, Rosenberger, Marlow, JJ.
Defendant's challenge to the court's reasonable doubt charge is unpreserved and we decline to review it in the interest of justice. Were we to review this claim, we would find that although "[t]he preferred phrasing to convey the concept and degree of reasonable doubt is illustrated in the Pattern Criminal Jury Instructions" (People v. Cubino, 88 N.Y.2d 998, 1000), the charge as a whole conveyed the proper standards (id.).
Defendant's constitutional challenge to the procedure under which he was sentenced as a persistent violent felony offender is unpreserved for appellate review and, in any event, is without merit (see, People v. Rosen, 96 N.Y.2d 329, cert denied US, 122 S.Ct. 224).
THIS CONSTITUTES THE DECISION AND ORDER OF THE SUPREME COURT, APPELLATE DIVISION, FIRST DEPARTMENT.