People v. Sirico

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Suffolk County (Kahn, J.), rendered January 9, 2007, convicting him of murder in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant claims that he was deprived of a fair trial when the County Court permitted the prosecutor to introduce evidence of a prior bad act. Any error in admitting this evidence was harmless because the evidence of the defendant’s guilt was overwhelming and there is no significant probability that, had it not been for the alleged error, the jury…