People v. Bryant

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Joseph Fisch, J.), rendered June 13, 1996, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of murder in the second degree, and sentencing her to a term of 25 years to life, unanimously affirmed.

The court did not improvidently exercise its discretion in denying the defense application to call an expert witness on battered women’s syndrome on the ground that, under all the circumstances, defendant did not lay a sufficient foundation (see, People v Cronin, 60 NY2d 430; People v Diaz, 51 NY2d 841) or make an adequate offer of proof. We note that there was…