People v. Vasquez

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Kreindler, J.), rendered December 5, 1990, convicting him of reckless endangerment in the first degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The trial court properly refused to admit into evidence the alleged hearsay statement made by a nonwitness to the defendant’s private investigator. Although the declarant asserted that the defendant was not aware that the declarant possessed the gun prior to the declarant discharging it towards the victim’s automobile, this exculpatory…