People v. Cabot

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (J. Goldberg, J.), rendered February 8, 2000, as amended March 16, 2000, convicting him of murder in the second degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment as amended is affirmed.

Contrary to the defendant’s contention, the trial court providently exercised its discretion by precluding him from admitting into evidence a written statement by a nontestifying third party, who was present at the scene of the crime and had implicated…