People v. Harris

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Douglass, J.), rendered November 18, 1997, convicting him of murder in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant killed the victim with a machete after the victim made a crude remark about the defendant’s girlfriend. With his girlfriend’s help, the defendant decapitated and dismembered the body and put the parts in garbage bags, which he discarded in the ocean near Coney Island. When the defendant confessed to his mother, his godmother, the…