People v. Daughtry

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Richard Lowe, III, J.), rendered December 7, 1993, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of murder in the second degree and conspiracy in the second degree (two counts), and sentencing him, as a persistent felony offender, to two concurrent terms of 25 years to life and a consecutive term of 25 years to life, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly admitted into evidence, under the declaration against penal interest exception to the hearsay rule, the videotaped confession of a codefendant since the People met all the criteria for admissibility…