Appeal from a judgment of the Monroe County Court (Patricia D. Marks, J.), rendered November 21, 2000. The judgment convicted defendant, upon a juiy verdict, of sexual abuse in the first degree and endangering the welfare of a child.
It is hereby ordered that the judgment so appealed from be and the same hereby is unanimously affirmed.
Defendant further contends that the court erred in permitting a prosecution witness to testify that defendant held himself out as a priest and wore a priest’s collar. Defendant made only a general objection to that testimony and subsequently made an untimely motion for a mistrial, and thus defendant failed to preserve his contention for our review (see People v Kello, 267 AD2d 123, 123-124 [1999], affd 96 NY2d 740 [2001]). Defendant also failed to preserve for our review his contention that the court demonstrated bias against him when the court sustained the objections of the prosecutor to defense counsel’s cross-examination of the victim and when the court interrupted defense counsel during that cross-examination and instead conducted its own examination of the victim (see generally People v Yut Wai Tom, 53 NY2d 44, 55-56 [1981]). We decline to exercise our power to review those contentions as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice (see CPL 470.15 [6] [a]). Contrary to defendant’s further contention, the reference of the prosecutor in his opening statement to “X-rated” materials found in defendant’s apartment was not so egregious as to deprive defendant of a fair trial (see generally People v Ashwal, 39 NY2d 105, 109-110 [1976]).
Although we agree with defendant that the court erred in admitting the affidavit of the People’s fingerprint expert at his persistent felony offender hearing (see Crawford v Washington, 541 US 36, 51-52 [2004]), we nevertheless conclude that the People met their burden at the hearing by submitting other evidence establishing beyond a reasonable doubt that defendant was convicted of at least two predicate felonies (see People v Williams, 30 AD3d 980, 981-983 [2006]).
We have reviewed defendant’s remaining contentions and
