People v. Gaskins

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Reichbach, J.), rendered January 11, 2001, convicting him of manslaughter in the first degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant’s contention that the trial court’s charge on the justification defense was erroneous because it did not explain the subjective nature of “reasonably believes” in the second prong of the analysis is raised for the first time on *507appeal. Because the defendant neither objected…