It is hereby ordered that the judgment so appealed from is unanimously affirmed.
Memorandum: Defendant appeals from a judgment convicting him upon a jury verdict of murder in the second degree (Penal Law § 125.25 [1]). The charge arose from an incident in 2007 in which defendant allegedly beat and strangled his former neighbor. Firefighters discovered the victim's body in her smoldering, smoke-filled apartment on Merchants Road in Rochester. An autopsy revealed...
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