Defendant's claim that comments made by the prosecutor in his opening statement and summation deprived him of a fair trial is unpreserved for appellate review as a matter of law (CPL 470.05 [2]), and we decline to review the challenged comments in the interest of justice. In any event, if we were to review them, we would find that the prosecutor's opening statement did not improperly shift the burden of proof to defendant, exaggerate the potential violence of the incident...
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