People v. Abbott

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Irving Lang, J., at jury trial, predicate felony hearing and sentence), rendered April 15, 1982, convicting defendant of manslaughter in the first degree, and sentencing him as a persistent violent felony offender to a term of imprisonment of from 15 years to life, unanimously affirmed.

Evidence at trial, which included testimony of several eyewitnesses to an argument between defendant and the victim minutes before the stabbing, testimony of an eyewitness to the stabbing, and defendant’s own admissions, was that in the early morning hours of July 18,…