People v. Cooks

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Nassau County (Goodman, J.), rendered March 28, 1988, convicting him of murder in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

At about noon on March 24, 1986, the defendant and his brother were fighting in front of the rooming house in which the defendant lived. Several neighborhood residents were watching. The building superintendent broke up the fight by holding the defendant while his brother escaped in a car. When the superintendent released him, the defendant went to his…