People v. Johnson

— Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Richard Lowe, J., at jury trial and sentence), rendered June 11, 1990, convicting defendant of attempted arson in the second degree and reckless endangerment in the first degree, and sentencing her to concurrent terms of imprisonment of 6 to 12 years and 3 Vi to 7 years, respectively, unanimously affirmed.

Disgruntled over being evicted, defendant spray-painted a hate message on a tenant’s door and liberally doused the halls and stairways of a four story apartment building with gasoline. When several tenants came out and angrily confronted her,…