People v. Ashline

Appeal from a judgment of the Steuben County Court (Joseph W. Latham, J.), rendered December 21, 2011. The judgment convicted defendant, upon a jury verdict, of murder in the first degree (two counts), murder in the second degree (two counts), aggravated criminal contempt and criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree.

It is hereby ordered that the judgment so appealed from is unanimously modified on the law by reversing those parts convicting defendant of two counts of murder in the second degree and dismissing counts three and four of the indictment and as modified the judgment is…