People v. Scott

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Demarest, J.), rendered March 24, 1993, convicting him of manslaughter in the first degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The charges in this case arose out of an incident which occurred on September 26, 1984, when the 16-year-old victim was shot and killed on a street corner in Brooklyn by the defendant, who was not immediately apprehended.

On October 16, 1984, prison officials intercepted a letter which had been addressed to an inmate at the Elmira Correctional…