Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
The defendant contends that the court committed reversible error in failing to charge the jury that it could consider endangering the welfare of a child as a lesser included offense of sodomy in the first degree. We disagree. In the absence of a request to submit a lesser included offense to the jury, a court's failure to do so does not constitute error (see, CPL 300.50 [2]). A review of this record indicates that the...
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