People v. Rhames

— Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Egitto, J.), rendered October 17, 1990, convicting him of murder in the second degree, criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, and criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

This case concerns the murder of a young man inside an elevator in a housing project. At trial, the defendant did not refute the details of the crime, but instead argued that he was erroneously identified or intentionally misidentified as the…