People v. Mines

Appeal by the defendant of a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Demakos, J.), rendered June 24, 1991, convicting him of manslaughter in the second degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

While we agree that the trial court’s charge did not adequately convey all of the subjective criteria with respect to the defense of justification, under the circumstances of this case the error was harmless (see, People v Wesley, 76 NY2d 555; People v Goetz, 68 NY2d 96; People v Phillips, 187…