People v. Warren

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Lawrence Tonetti, J.), rendered April 18, 2001, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of murder in the second degree, and sentencing him to a term of 25 years to life, unanimously affirmed.

*187The court properly admitted evidence that, several days before the instant homicide, defendant offered a gun to a person engaged in a fistfight with the ultimate homicide victim, since this evidence was relevant to refute defendant’s contention that he had been a close friend of the victim (see e.g. People v Dunston, 159 AD2d 387, 388 [1990], lv denied 76 NY2d 734…