People v. Harris

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Lombardo, J.), rendered August 27, 1987, convicting him of murder in the second degree (two counts) and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

At trial, the People proved beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant fatally stabbed the victim 49 times with knives which the police recovered from him at the scene during his arrest. With respect to the defendant’s claims of prejudice resulting from the…