People v. Smith

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Egitto, J.), rendered October 15, 1987, convicting him of murder in the second degree, criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant contends that his judgment of conviction should be reversed because the testimony of the People’s leading witness was acquired by duress. We disagree. While the issue is preserved for appellate review even though there was no…