People v. Figueroa

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (William Wallace, III, J.), rendered December 22, 1993, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of murder in the second degree, and sentencing him to a term of 25 years to life, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant’s challenge to the subjective element of the court’s justification charge is unpreserved for review (People v Morales, 210 AD2d 173, lv denied 84 NY2d 1035), and we decline to review it in the interest of justice. Were we to review it, we would find that the court adequately charged the jurors to place themselves in defendant’s circumstances when…