People v. Wright

Appeal from a judgment of the County Court of Albany County (Herrick, J.), rendered September 16, 2009, which resentenced defendant upon a verdict convicting him of the crime of murder in the second degree.

In 1984, defendant was convicted of, among other things, rape in the first degree — a violent felony sex offense (see Penal Law § 130.35 [1]) — and sentenced to 8⅓ to 25 years in prison. *1164Defendant was released to parole supervision in September 2002 and, nine months later, killed his mother with an axe. Following a jury trial in 2004, defendant was convicted of murder in the second degree…