People v. Watson

*722Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Marrus, J.), rendered May 2, 2002, convicting him of murder in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The Supreme Court properly denied the defendant’s request to introduce the grand jury testimony of a witness who had since become unavailable to testify at trial. Evidence of this type “must be admitted when it is material, exculpatory and has sufficient indicia of reliability” (People v Stultz, 2 NY3d 277, 286 [2004]). Although the unavailable witness’s…