People v. Brown

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Ryan, J.), rendered November 20, 1981, as amended December 3, 1981, convicting him of murder in the second degree (two counts), and criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Judgment, as amended, affirmed.

Although the trial court erred in admitting hearsay evidence regarding the aliases of one of the murder victims, this evidence was admitted only for the purpose of establishing the codefendant’s motive for the crime and bore no relation to the identity of the…