People v. Williams

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Rockland County (Miller, J.), rendered January 11, 1984, convicting him of attempted murder in the second degree and assault in the first degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

A review of the record indicates that there was ample evidence, including the testimony of a psychiatrist called on behalf of the People, for the jury to reject the defendant’s affirmative defense of extreme emotional disturbance on the charge of attempted murder in the second degree (see, Penal Law § 125.25…