Defendant was convicted of hiring other persons to kill her husband's ex-wife. In carrying out the planned murder, the other persons, acting on their own accord, deliberately killed a second person who happened to be present in the intended victim's apartment. With respect to the latter killing, defendant did not preserve her challenge to her conviction of first-degree murder under a murder-for-hire theory (Penal Law § 125.27 [1] [a] [vi]), and we decline to review it...
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