People v. Orenzo

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Gerges, J.), rendered January 6, 1992, convicting him of murder in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

In the early morning hours of April 6, 1991, the defendant, encouraged by the codefendant Jose Santiago, chased a third man into a bodega on Fulton Street in Brooklyn, and shot him with a handgun. The victim eventually died of the gunshot wound to his head and brain.

In the challenge to his conviction, the defendant claims that he was deprived of a fair…