People v. Hernandez

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Aiello, J.), rendered June 23, 1987, convicting him of murder in the second degree (two counts), upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The proof at trial established that on the afternoon of February 16, 1986, the defendant and his friend, Sonny Rodriguez, sat in the defendant’s basement apartment at 78 Nor-wood Avenue in Brooklyn and planned to rob Miguel Rubio, the defendant’s landlord, in order to obtain money to buy drugs. The defendant lured Rubio, who was in the process…