People v. Van Johnson
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Golia, J.), rendered June 8, 1988, convicting him of murder in the second degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.
Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
The defendant was jointly tried with his codefendant Martin White and convicted after a jury trial of murder and criminal possession of a weapon in connection with the fatal shooting of his sister’s boyfriend Richard Matías. The circumstantial evidence submitted by the People at the joint trial is set…
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