Opinion
April 24, 2000.
Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Dutchess County (Dolan, J.), rendered April 3, 1998, convicting him of attempted murder in the second degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.
Goldstein, J. P., Florio, Feuerstein and Schmidt, JJ., concur.
Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
Contrary to the defendant's contention, the People established a proper chain of custody as to People's Exhibit 1, i.e., three nine-millimeter shell casings found at the scene of the shooting, by providing reasonable assurances of the identity and unchanged condition of the evidence. Thus, that evidence was properly admitted ( see, People v. Julian, 41 N.Y.2d 340, 343, quoting Amaro v. City of New York, 40 N.Y.2d 30, 35; People v. Brown, 251 A.D.2d 341). The defendant's claims regarding irregularities in the chain of custody go to the weight and not the admissibility of the evidence ( see, People v. Vasquez, 143 A.D.2d 525).
The defendant's remaining contentions, including those raised in his supplemental pro se brief, are unpreserved for appellate review, and, in any event, without merit.