People v. Cruz

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Robert Cohen, J., at Mapp/Huntley/Rosario hearing, trial and sentence), rendered August 2, 1989, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of murder in the second degree, burglary in the first degree and assault in the second degree, and sentencing him, respectively, to an indeterminate prison term of from twenty years to life and two indeterminate prison terms of from two and one-third to seven years, all to run concurrently, unanimously affirmed.

After the defendant forced open the door to where the deceased lived, he repeatedly stabbed her in the chest…