People v. Hill

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Alexander W. Hunter, Jr., J.), rendered April 18, 2001, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of murder in the second degree, and sentencing him to a term of 25 years to life, affirmed.

The court properly exercised its discretion in declining to *311permit the defense to conduct a psychiatric examination of defendant more than three years after the crime. Although defendant had served and filed a timely notice of intent to proffer psychiatric evidence (CPL 250.10), this notice lacked the required specificity, and for three years defendant did not seek a…