People v. Rodriguez

— Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Friedmann, J.), rendered April 13, 1989, convicting him of murder in the second degree (three counts), robbery in the first degree (two counts), burglary in the first degree (two counts), and criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant confessed that he stabbed the victim in the throat. The medical evidence adduced at trial established that the victim’s death was caused by "incised and cut wounds of neck,…