Opinion
March 4, 1996
Appeal from the Supreme Court, Kings County (Gary, J.).
Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
The defendant failed to preserve for appellate review his objections to the court's charge to the jury ( see, CPL 470.05). In any event, contrary to the defendant's contention, the court's charge to the jury was adequate because the charge as a whole properly defined the concept of reasonable doubt ( see, People v Canty, 60 N.Y.2d 830; People v Taik Kwung, 186 A.D.2d 365; People v Jones, 156 A.D.2d 718). In addition, "although it was unnecessary for the trial court to elaborate upon the simple language of CPL 300.10 (2) with respect to the defendant's failure to testify, the defendant was not deprived of a fair trial by the court's charge" ( People v Williams, 188 A.D.2d 573, 574). Mangano, P.J., Bracken, Copertino and Pizzuto, JJ., concur.