People v. Costello

— Appeal from a judgment of the County Court of Rensselaer County (Dwyer, Jr., J.), rendered January 21, 1982, upon a verdict convicting defendant of the crimes of murder in the second degree and attempted murder in the second degree. On the morning of April 9,1981, Ralph Passonno, Jr., an auctioneer, and Maurice Kelly, a real estate agent, set out to visit a residence in the Town of Pittstown to appraise and plan the sale of its contents; an unidentified female caller had told Passonno she wished to dispose of the furnishings quickly following the recent death of her mother. At the…