People v. Blake

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Rena K. Uviller, J.), rendered April 4, 1990, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of manslaughter in the first degree, and sentencing her to a term of imprisonment of 4 to 12 years, unanimously affirmed.

The victim was fatally stabbed by the defendant with a pen in a store following an altercation in which defendant complained that the victim was speaking too loudly.

Defendant’s claim that the prosecutor improperly used her pretrial silence to impeach her trial testimony is unpreserved for appellate review and we decline to reach it in the…