People v. Maher

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Suffolk County (Mallon, J.), rendered March 12, 1992, convicting him of murder in the second degree (two counts) and criminal contempt in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant contends, among other things, that the trial court improperly admitted into evidence prior bad acts committed by him against the victim. We disagree. The evidence of the prior bad acts was relevant to the defendant’s motive and intent when he shot and killed the victim, and the…