People v. Parton, KA 03-01125.
| Citation | 2006 NY Slip Op 00895,808 N.Y.S.2d 531,26 A.D.3d 868 |
| Decision Date | 03 February 2006 |
| Docket Number | KA 03-01125. |
| Parties | THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. MICHAEL PARTON, Appellant. |
| Court | New York Supreme Court — Appellate Division |
v.
MICHAEL PARTON, Appellant.
Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Onondaga County (John J. Brunetti, A.J.), rendered May 23, 2003. The judgment convicted defendant, upon a jury verdict, of murder in the second degree (two counts) and robbery in the first degree (two counts).
It is hereby ordered that the judgment so appealed from be and the same hereby is unanimously modified on the law by directing that the sentence imposed on count five of the indictment shall run concurrently with the sentences imposed on
counts one and four of the indictment and as modified the judgment is affirmed.
Memorandum:
Defendant appeals from a judgment convicting him upon a jury verdict of two counts each of murder in the second degree (Penal Law § 125.25 [2], [3]) and robbery in the first degree (§ 160.15 [1], [3]). We reject defendant's contention that Supreme Court erred in refusing to submit manslaughter in the second degree as a lesser included offense of depraved indifference murder (see People v. James, 19 AD3d 616, 617 [2005], lv denied 5 NY3d 807 [2005]; People v. Libardi, 12 AD3d 534, 535 [2004], lv denied 4 NY3d 765 [2005]). There is no reasonable view of the evidence, viewed in the light most favorable to defendant (see People v. Randolph, 81 NY2d 868, 869 [1993]), that defendant and his accomplice did not act under circumstances "evincing a depraved indifference to human life" (Penal Law § 125.25 [2]; see People v. Platt, 299 AD2d 496 [2002], lv denied 99 NY2d 618 [2003]; People v. Hernandez, 297 AD2d 389 [2002], lv denied 98 NY2d 768 [2002]; People v. Mills, 291 AD2d 844, 844-845 [2002], lv denied 98 NY2d 678, 99 NY2d 538 [2002]). Contrary to the further contention of defendant, he was not entitled to a missing witness charge based upon the People's failure to call his accomplice as a witness. The testimony of defendant's accomplice "would [have been] `presumptively suspect' . . . or subject to impeachment detrimental to the People's case" (People v. Arnold, 298 AD2d 895, 895 [2002], lv denied 99 NY2d 580 [2003]; see People v. Batson, 219 AD2d 538 [1995], lv denied 87 NY2d 844 [1995]).
The court properly imposed consecutive sentences of imprisonment on the counts of depraved indifference murder under...
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