People v. Adams

—Judgment unanimously affirmed. Memorandum: Defendant appeals from a judgment convicting him after a jury trial of manslaughter in the first degree (Penal Law § 125.20) and criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree (Penal Law § 265.01). County Court properly refused to admit in evidence the victim’s psychiatric records in support of defendant’s justification defense. In support of that defense, defendant presented evidence of the victim’s anger at the time of the incident; defendant’s knowledge that, shortly before the victim’s death, the victim had choked defendant’s girlfriend;…