People v. Velez

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Wade, J.), rendered May 9, 1996, convicting him of murder in the second degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The Supreme Court properly denied the defendant’s challenge for cause of a prospective juror. Moreover, viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the People (see, People v Contes, 60 NY2d 620), we find that it was legally sufficient to establish the defendant’s guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.

Th…