People v. Cilberg

Appeal from a judgment of the County Court of Sullivan County (Meddaugh, J.), rendered March 18, 1996, upon a verdict convicting defendant of the crimes of murder in the second degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree.

When the State Police responded on January 15, 1991 to a call reporting a shooting at a residence in the Town of Rock-land, Sullivan County, they discovered that defendant’s landlord had been fatally shot and that defendant had locked himself in an upstairs room. For approximately four hours thereafter the police negotiated with defendant, attempting, to…