People v. Gordon

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Feldman, J.), rendered May 25, 1994, convicting him of murder in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

Contrary to the defendant’s contentions, the court properly admitted into evidence, on the People’s rebuttal case, the testimony of a forensic psychiatrist, who recounted certain out-of-court statements made to him by the defendant’s cousin. Inasmuch as the cousin’s statements formed a basis of the expert’s professional opinion, the testimony was…