Appeal from a judgment of the County Court of Che-mung County (Danaher, Jr., J.), rendered January 11, 1993,
We reject the contentions advanced by defendant and accordingly affirm County Court’s judgment of conviction. Initially, we agree with County Court’s determination of defendant’s Huntley motion, suppressing only statements made by defendant after he invoked his right to counsel by declaring his refusal to submit to a breathalyzer test unless the Public Defender was present. In our view, County Court was not required to exclude all evidence of defendant’s refusal to submit to a chemical test (see, Vehicle and Traffic Law §§ 1192, 1194 [2] [f]; People v O’Rama,
In view of defendant’s effort on summation to blame the police for his claimed inability to secure the presence of an attorney, the prosecutor’s references in his summation to defendant’s assertion of his right to have counsel present during the administration of the breathalyzer test, and suggestion that defendant actually avoided the test because of his intoxication, constituted fair comment. Nor are we persuaded that County Court abused its discretion by restricting cross-examination of prosecution witnesses on such matters as the effect a cold may have on the symptomatology of intoxication and whether it is possible for a person to be "stone sober” and yet have the smell of alcohol on his breath. Defendant’s remaining contentions either have not been preserved for appellate review, are not supported by the record or have been considered and rejected as meritless.
White, Casey, Weiss and Peters, JJ., concur. Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
