People v. Quintana

Opinion by

Judge ROTHENBERG.

Defendant, Daniel J. Quintana, appeals the judgment of conviction entered on a jury verdict finding him guilty of second degree murder. We affirm.

On September 6, 1995, at approximately 1:30 a.m., as defendant left a bar with a woman friend, his friend became involved in a physical altercation in the parking lot with another woman who had just been kicked out of the bar for being intoxicated. Defendant became involved in the altercation.

When the bartender came out into the parking lot to stop the fight, he and the intoxicated woman were stabbed and the bartender died…