People v. Gillespie

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Michael Corriero, J.), rendered September 27, 1999, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of burglary in the second degree, and sentencing him, as a second violent felony offender, to a definite term of 15 years, unanimously affirmed.

Over the course of a stormy, year-long relationship, defendant had often threatened his girlfriend with bodily harm, including alleged threats to “fire bomb” or “burn” her out. On one occasion he actually broke her shoulder and lacerated her forehead, but she declined to press criminal charges. Their rocky romance…