People v. Bethune

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Tomei, J.), rendered June 16, 2009, convicting him of murder in the second degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant contends that the court’s supplemental charge explaining that the initial verdict was repugnant and defining murder in the second degree was improper. However, the trial transcript has since been properly resettled to reflect that the challenged portions of the charge represented…