People v. Jackson

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (James Leif, J.), rendered September 13, 1995, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of assault in the first degree, and sentencing him, as a second violent felony offender, to a term of lxk to 15 years, unanimously affirmed.

Since no reasonable view of the evidence established the elements required for the defense of justification involving deadly physical force, the trial court properly refused defendant’s request for a justification charge (People v Arzu, 240 AD2d 217; see also, People v Reynoso, 73 NY2d 816). Viewed in the light most favorable…