People v. Moore

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Nassau County (Boklan, J.), rendered May 7, 1987, convicting him of criminally negligent homicide and assault in the third degree (two counts), upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The victim was a passenger in a Jeep that had participated in a reckless chase with the van in which the defendant was a passenger. When the vehicles finally stopped at a traffic light, the Jeep’s operator, Richard Salerno, alighted from his vehicle and smashed the driver’s side window of the van. The defendant…