People v. Evans

OPINION OF THE COURT

Kapnick, J.

On this appeal, defendant principally argues that the trial court improvidently exercised its discretion in denying his motion to introduce expert testimony on the subject of false confessions. By indictment No. 5747/09, defendant was charged with second-degree murder, and second- and third-degree criminal possession of a weapon, relating to an August 16, 2006 incident in which he allegedly shot at one person, but instead hit and killed an innocent female bystander, in the street in Upper Manhattan (the 2006 homicide). By indictment No. 4382/09, defendant was…