People v. Rivera

Appeal by the defendant from the judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Lott, J.), rendered June 4, 2001, convicting him of murder 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.

Contrary to the defendant’s contention, the trial court properly refused to instruct the jury with respect to manslaughter in the first and second degrees as lesser-included offenses of intentional murder (see CPL 300.50; People v Butler, 84 NY2d 627 [1994]). Under no reasonable view of the evidence…