People v. Wiggins

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Alexander Hunter, J.), rendered February 10, 1999, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of murder in the first degree, and sentencing him to life without the possibility of parole, unanimously modified, on the law, to vacate the sentence and remand for resentencing, and otherwise affirmed.

The verdict is supported by legally sufficient evidence that defendant committed the murder pursuant to an agreement by which his cousin would forgive a $2,000 debt (Penal Law § 125.27 [1] [a] [vi]). In view of defendant’s conflicting versions of events as provided…