People v. Smith

—Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Lawrence Tonetti, J.), rendered March 23, 1995, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of murder in the second degree, and sentencing him to a term of 20 years to life, and order, same court and Justice, entered on or about June 21, 1996, denying defendant’s motion pursuant to CPL 440.10 to vacate said judgment, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant was convicted of shooting a rival drug dealer in the head in a dispute over drug-selling territory. On appeal, he argues that the trial court’s questioning of witnesses deprived him of a fair trial in two…