People v. Aviles

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Alvin Schlesinger, J.), rendered April 14, 1982, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of murder in the second degree, and sentencing him to a term of imprisonment of 22 years to life, unanimously affirmed.

Evidence at trial was that on the evening of September 8, 1980, defendant and codefendants Danny Perez and Pablo Garcia confronted the victim and his girlfriend at a Bronx street corner. Defendant and the codefendants, each armed with a gun, repeatedly shot at the victim at point-blank range. The victim sustained 17 gunshot wounds, from which he…