People v. Wright
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Cooperman, J.), rendered September 17, 1990, convicting her of murder in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.
Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
Viewing the evidence in a light most favorable to the prosecution (see, People v Contes, 60 NY2d 620), we find that it was legally sufficient to establish that "[u]nder circumstances evincing a depraved indifference to human life [the defendant] recklessly engage[d] in conduct which create[d] a grave risk of death to another person, and thereby…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- People v. ContesNew York Court of Appeals · 1983
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