Opinion
January 29, 1991
Appeal from the Supreme Court, New York County (Edwin Torres, J.).
Under the circumstances of this case, joinder was proper (People v Pace, 156 A.D.2d 321, lv denied 75 N.Y.2d 968). Similarly, considering that Hylton made her own elaborate confession, which was corroborated by ample evidence irrespective of the statements of her codefendants, we cannot conclude that reversible error occurred with introduction of the statements of those codefendants (supra). Defendant's challenges to the trial court's instruction on duress are unpreserved as a matter of law; nor do we find reversible error in the prosecutor's comments which referred to defendant's failure to establish this defense. With respect to other comments by the prosecutor in summation, defendant's arguments are either unpreserved or unpersuasive. We have examined defendant's remaining contentions and find them to be meritless.
Concur — Murphy, P.J., Carro, Kupferman, Asch and Kassal, JJ.