People v. Brown

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Edwin Torres, J.), rendered February 20, 1990, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of murder in the second degree, and sentencing him to a term of 25 years to life, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant was charged with two counts of murder in the second degree (Penal Law § 125.25 [1], [2]). Without objection, the trial court improperly charged the jury in the conjunctive rather than in the alternative (People v Gallagher, 69 NY2d 525). While the jury convicted defendant of both counts, the trial court only imposed sentence under the intentional…