People v. Higgins

Appeal by the defendant (1) from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Uviller, J.), rendered February 4, 1985, convicting him of murder in the second degree (four counts) and sodomy in the first degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence, and (2), by permission, from an order of the same court (Feldman, J.), entered June 25, 1987, which denied his motion pursuant to CPL 440.10 vacate the judgment.

Ordered that the judgment and order are affirmed.

We find that the defendant’s statements, as well as the testimony of a witness that the defendant was observed in the presence of…