People v. Castro

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Barbara F. Newman, J.), rendered August 14, 2013, 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.

The court’s Molineux ruling was a proper exercise of discretion. Although the court initially precluded the People from eliciting that defendant had previously committed a burglary with the other two perpetrators of the charged crime, the court properly permitted the People to ask a witness about that incident to clarify testimony elicited on cross-examination.…