People v. Barnes

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Fred Eggert, J.), rendered January 20, 1987, convicting defendant after jury trial of murder in the second degree and sentencing him to a term of imprisonment of 25 years to life, to run consecutively to a term of imprisonment imposed in connection with defendant’s unrelated Federal conviction for bank robbery, unanimously affirmed.

*641Evidence adduced at trial indicated that four eyewitnesses acquainted with defendant saw him assume a "combat stance” and fire a handgun at the victim, who fell dead on a Bronx street. Defendant explained to at least one of…