People v. Johnson

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Suffolk County (Weber, J.), rendered January 17, 2012, convicting him of murder in the second degree, patronizing a prostitute in the third degree, and aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

Viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution (see People v Contes, 60 NY2d 620, 621 [1983]), we find that it was legally sufficient to establish the defendant’s guilt of murder in the second degree beyond a…