People v. Williams

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Rockland County (Kelly, J.), rendered March 15, 1989, convicting him of murder in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

On October 6, 1987, the defendant gave a statement to the Rockland County District Attorney and to the police confessing that he had killed his mother earlier that day. The defendant admitted that he shot his mother after an argument concerning his failure to attend school because she told him that he "wasn’t no good”, that she did not need him, and that…