People v. Priester

—Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Robert Straus, J.), rendered November 21, 1995, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of manslaughter in the first degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, and sentencing him, as a second violent felony offender, to concurrent terms of 12 to 24 years and 7 to 14 years, respectively, unanimously affirmed.

Testimony concerning defendant’s talk of killing an eyewitness, the prosecutor and defendant’s prior attorney during defendant’s aborted first trial was properly admitted as evidence of defendant’s consciousness of guilt…