People v. Vasquez

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Antonio I. Brandveen, J.), rendered January 4, 1993, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, and sentencing him to a term of 2 Vs to 7 years, unanimously affirmed.

In this murder trial, the trial court properly exercised its discretion by receiving evidence of defendant’s uncharged drug dealing as proof of his motive to kill a competing dealer (People v Cedeno, 175 AD2d 767, 769, lv denied 79 NY2d 854). Although the challenged evidence, which came in on redirect examination of a prosecution…