PEOPLE v. RIVERS

3587, 3776/10.

149 A.D.3d 575 (2017)

2017 NY Slip Op 03043

50 N.Y.S.3d 274

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. MARVIS RIVERS, Appellant.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department.

Decided April 20, 2017.


Defendant's challenges to the prosecutor's summation are unpreserved, and we decline to review them in the interest of justice. As an alternative holding, we reject them on the merits. The prosecutor never suggested that certain DNA evidence, which was unidentifiable, linked defendant to the crime, and defendant's assertion that the prosecutor made the kind of misrepresentations described in People v Wright (

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