People v. Shomo

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Michael Obús, J.), rendered December 15, 2000, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of murder in the second degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, and sentencing him, as a persistent violent felony offender, to concurrent terms of 25 years to life, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly exercised its discretion in admitting evidence of uncharged crimes, with suitable limiting instructions. Evidence of defendant’s use of a firearm on certain relevant occasions was highly probative, given defendant’s claim that at the…