People v. Prittler

Judgment of the Supreme Court, New York County (Juanita Bing Newton, J.), rendered November 9, 1992, convicting defendant, after jury trial, of murder in the second degree, and sentencing him to an indeterminate term of imprisonment of from 25 years to life, unanimously affirmed.

The testimony of defendant’s accomplice that defendant had introduced him to an individual, whom the accomplice had hired to commit two murders and who had absconded with the fee he was paid to kill the victim in this case, was properly admitted to establish defendant’s intent and motive as well as to provide the…