People v. Dockery

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Clifford Scott, J., at jury trial and sentence), *433rendered July 27, 1989, convicting defendant after a jury trial of murder in the second degree, and sentencing him to an indeterminate prison term of 25 years to life, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant was convicted by a jury of the fatal beating, with a rock, of a wheelchair-bound, elderly man. At sentencing, the trial court denied defense counsel’s request for an adjournment to conduct a psychiatric evaluation of defendant in aid of sentence. The trial court had ample opportunity to observe defendant’s…