Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
The defendant claims that the court improperly charged the jury on the defense of justification only under the theory of "deadly physical force", when it should also have charged under the theory of "physical force". Since the defendant did not object to the language used by the court in its charge, he failed to preserve this issue for appellate review (see, CPL 470.05 [2];
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