People v. Vargas

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Pincus, J.), rendered July 15, 1982, convicting him of murder in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

On the afternoon of July 20, 1980, the defendant, then 15 years old, and two accomplices robbed and stabbed to death an elderly man they found waiting on the elevated platform of the Kosciusko Street subway station. One of his accomplices confessed and implicated the defendant in the crime.

The defendant was arrested outside his home in the presence of his…