People v. Coleman

— Judgment unanimously reversed, on the law and as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, and indictment dismissed without prejudice to the People to re-present any appropriate charges to another Grand Jury. Memorandum: In this appeal from a conviction, following a jury trial, of manslaughter in the first degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree, defendant asserts that the court’s charge to the jury on the defense of justification was erroneous as a matter of law. We agree. Defendant was originally charged with murder in the second degree in the beating and…