People v. Russ

Appeal by the defendant from a *362judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Kreindler, J.), rendered December 4, 1986, convicting him of murder in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant and his codefendant James Bumpus were tried together for the felony murder of Hector Rodriguez. We have already reviewed and affirmed Bumpus’s conviction (People v Bumpus, 163 AD2d 484). In so doing, we rejected the arguments raised in this appeal concerning the alleged improper use of Grand Jury testimony of prosecution witnesses for…