People v. Rabenbauer

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Nassau County (Baker, J.), rendered October 19, 1987, convicting him of murder in the second degree, after a nonjury trial, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

Viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the People (see, People v Contes, 60 NY2d 620), we find that it was legally sufficient to establish the defendant’s guilt of intentional murder beyond a reasonable doubt. Even assuming that the evidence proffered by the defendant at trial sufficed to meet the threshold requirement that he acted under…