People v. Ortiz

— Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Lawrence Tonetti, J.), rendered May 25, 1990, convicting defendant after a jury trial, of murder in the second degree, and sentenced him as a persistent violent felony offender to a term of imprisonment of from 25 years to life, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant was convicted for the stabbing death of his estranged common law wife at her apartment, during a heated argument. The argument, immediately preceding the assault, although not the stabbing itself, was observed by the wife’s female house guest. Defendant admitted shortly thereafter to other…