People v. Rivera

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Marrus, J.), rendered June 8, 2009, convicting him of manslaughter in the first degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant was indicted on charges of, inter alia, murder *659in the second degree (Penal Law § 125.25 [1]), arising from a barroom confrontation that resulted in a stabbing death. At trial, two of the People’s witnesses testified that the defendant exchanged words with the victim and suddenly “punched” him twice in the area of his left chest and left…