People v. Delpilar

—Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Steven Barrett, J.), rendered on or about December 18, 2000, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of murder in the second degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, and sentencing him to an aggregate term of 22 years to life, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly exercised its discretion in permitting the prosecutor to reopen direct examination of a witness after cross-examination had commenced, as the result of a witness-initiated conference between the witness and the prosecutor that had occurred during a recess. The court…