Cardozo Appeals Clinic, New York (Stanley Neustadter of counsel), for appellant.

Robert T. Johnson, District Attorney, Bronx (Shannon Henderson of counsel), for respondent.

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Barbara F. Newman, J.), rendered September 4, 2013, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of burglary in the first and second degrees and criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, and sentencing him, as a persistent violent felony offender, to an aggregate term of 20 years to life, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly exercised its discretion in denying defendant's mistrial motion made after a police witness made an inadvertent, fleeting reference that implied defendant's parole status. The court's prompt and thorough curative instructions were sufficient to prevent any prejudice (see e.g. People v Rubi, 19 AD3d 139, 140 [1st Dept 2005], lv denied 5 NY3d 809 [2005]; People v Branford, 220 AD2d 203 [1st Dept 1995], lv denied 87 NY2d 1017 [1996]). In any event, any error was harmless (see People v Crimmins, 36 NY2d 230 [1975]). Concur—Friedman, J.P., Sweeny, Saxe and Gische, JJ.