People v. Brown

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Ira Globerman, J.), rendered December 17, 2003, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of murder in the second degree (depraved indifference), and sentencing him to a term of 18 years to life, unanimously modified, on the law, to the extent of vacating the DNA databank fee, and otherwise affirmed.

The People’s main witness, a 35-year-old drug abuser with numerous convictions who, on the night in question had consumed four or five Long Island Iced Teas and had smoked several “blunts” containing marijuana mixed with cocaine, saw a group of men, four of…