Opinion
Submitted October 19, 2000.
November 21, 2000.
Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Eng, J.), rendered September 29, 1999, convicting him of manslaughter in the first degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.
Donald R. Schechter, Kew Gardens, N.Y., for appellant.
Richard A. Brown, District Attorney, Kew Gardens, N.Y. (John M. Castellano, Ellen C. Abbot, and Ushir Pandit of counsel), for respondent.
Before: GLORIA GOLDSTEIN, J.P., LEO F. McGINITY, DANIEL F. LUCIANO, SANDRA J. FEUERSTEIN, JJ.
DECISION ORDER
ORDERED that the judgment is affirmed.
The defendant has not preserved for appellate review his contention, raised for the first time at the close of evidence, that the trial court unduly interfered with the questioning of him at trial (see, People v. Yut Wai Tom, 53 N.Y.2d 44; People v. Gales, 264 A.D.2d 642; People v. Smith, 222 A.D.2d 463). In any event, the contention is without merit since the court's minimal interjections facilitated an orderly progression of the trial and did not deprive the defendant of a fair trial (see, People v. Yut Wai Tom, supra; People v. Hartzog, 263 A.D.2d 492).
The sentence was not excessive (see, People v. Suitte, 90 A.D.2d 80; People v. Robinson, 250 A.D.2d 629).
The defendant's remaining contentions are either unpreserved for appellate review or without merit.