People v. Santiago

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Martin Marcus, J.), rendered March 24, 1992, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of manslaughter in the first degree, and sentencing him to a term of 81/s to 25 years, unanimously modified, as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, to the extent of reducing the sentence to a term of 5 to 15 years, and otherwise affirmed.

Viewed in the light most favorable to the People, the evidence that defendant stabbed the deceased three times in the back in the course of a fist fight was legally sufficient to establish the requisite intent to cause…