Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York December 30, 2004 (People v. Powell)

Crew III, J.P

Appeal from a judgment of the County Court of Columbia County (Leaman, J.), rendered October 10, 1997, upon *976a verdict convicting defendant of the crime of murder in the second degree.

Defendant’s wife disappeared in October 1994 when she was six months pregnant. In 1996, her remains were discovered in a hockey bag lying in the ebbing tide of the Hudson River.