Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Steven Barrett, J.), rendered March 5, 1997, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of murder in the second degree, and sentencing him to a term of 25 years to life, unanimously affirmed.
The verdict was based on legally sufficient evidence and was not against the weight of the evidence. We see no reason to disturb the jury’s determinations concerning credibility.
The court properly exercised its discretion in denying defendant’s mistrial motion made after the prosecutor, in objecting to loud statements by defendant, remarked that defendant should take the stand instead of speaking from the defense table. The prosecutor made no effort to invite the jury to draw a negative inference, and, by directing the jury to disregard the prosecutor’s remark and by repeatedly instructing the jury that no inference could be drawn from the fact that defendant did not testify, the court prevented any prejudice (see, Fox v Mann,
We perceive no basis for reduction of sentence. Concur— Nardelli, J. P., Williams, Andrias, Wallach and Lerner, JJ.