The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Roosevelt Mack, Appellant

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Roosevelt Mack, Appellant. [MAJORITY] — Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Greenberg, J.), rendered April 11, 1986, convicting him of grand larceny in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence. Ordered that the judgment is affirmed. The defendant has failed to preserve for appellate review his contention that the trial court erred in permitting a prosecution witness to testify on redirect examination as to a prior consistent statement (see, CPL 470.05 [2]). In any event, we find that the trial court did not abuse its discretion in admitting such testimony in light of defense counsel’s attempt to create an inference that the witness’ testimony that the defendant was in possession of a gun at the time of the commission of the crime was a recent fabrication (see, People v McClean, 69 NY2d 426, 428; People v Melendez, 55 NY2d 445, 451). Kooper, J. P., Sullivan, Harwood and Balletta, JJ., concur.