DECISION ORDER
ORDERED that the judgment is affirmed.
The defendant's claim that the evidence was legally insufficient to establish that he intended to cause serious physical injury is unpreserved for appellate review (see, CPL 470.05[2]). In any event, viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution (see, People v. Contes, 60 N.Y.2d 620 ), we find that it was legally sufficient to establish his guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. The defendant initially punched the victim, causing him to fall to the ground. Thereafter, the victim got up and went to a nearby fire alarm box to try to summon help. When the victim returned, the defendant repeatedly punched him in the face, despite the fact that the victim was bleeding from the ears, nose, and mouth. The victim finally fell to the floor, suffered a fractured skull, a frontal contusion, contusions on both sides of the brain and bleeding inside the brain. Under the circumstances, a jury could have reasonably concluded that the defendant intended to cause serious physical injury (see, People v. Martinez, 224 A.D.2d 254, 255 ; People v. Crawford, 200 A.D.2d 683, 684 ; People v. Delgado, 167 A.D.2d 181, 182 ; People v. Figueroa, 143 A.D.2d 767 ).
The defendant also failed to preserve for appellate review his contentions that the prosecutor's impeachment of the codefendant's witness, and the court's related jury instructions, violated the rule of People v. Dawson ( 50 N.Y.2d 311 ; see, People v. Douglas, 248 A.D.2d 550 ). In any event, these claims are without merit.
The sentence was not excessive (see, People v. Suitte, 90 A.D.2d 80 ).
O'BRIEN, J.P., RITTER, SANTUCCI, and FLORIO, JJ., concur.