People v. Skinner

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Bernard Fried, J.), rendered July 30, 1996, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of two counts of murder in the second degree, and sentencing him to concurrent terms of 25 years to life, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant made a series of statements during a single interrogation session, in which he implicated himself in two separate homicides, one in New York City and the other in Utica. At the Utica trial, defendant denied that he had made the statements related to the Utica murder but never mentioned that he had been physically abused prior to…