Opinion
Argued May 8, 2000.
June 19, 2000.
Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Hall, J.), rendered May 2, 1997, convicting him of kidnapping in the first degree (three counts), upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.
Elizabeth S. Ostrow, New York, N.Y., for appellant.
Charles J. Hynes, District Attorney, Brooklyn, N.Y. (Leonard Joblove and Cynthia Kean of counsel), for respondent.
Before: DANIEL W. JOY, J.P., WILLIAM D. FRIEDMANN, GABRIEL M. KRAUSMAN, HOWARD MILLER, JJ.
DECISION ORDER
ORDERED that the judgment is affirmed.
The defendant's challenges to purported improprieties in the prosecutor's summation are unpreserved for appellate review (see, CPL 470.05; People v. Udzinski, 146 A.D.2d 245, 250) and, in any event, are without merit.
In light of the language difficulty displayed by the complainant, which was noted by the trial court, the court providently exercised its discretion in permitting the prosecutor to pose some leading questions in an effort to clarify the testimony (see, People v. Williams, 242 A.D.2d 469; see also, People v. Moulton, 43 N.Y.2d 944).
The imposition of consecutive sentences was not unlawful (see, Penal Law § 70.25; People v. Laureano, 87 N.Y.2d 640).
The defendant's remaining contentions are either unpreserved for appellate review (see, CPL 470.05) or without merit.