People v. Williams

Defendant argues that the evidence was legally insufficient to establish that he acted under circumstances evincing "depraved indifference to human life” or that his conduct created a "grave risk of death” so as to support a conviction of reckless endangerment in the first degree. The trial evidence showed that on October 2, 1986, at about 8:00 p.m., two police officers observed defendant running a red light in a stolen *254Mazda RX-7. Defendant ignored the officers’ attempts to pull him over and engaged them in a high-speed chase on University Avenue, a well-traveled street in The Bronx. The…