People v. Cox

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Robinson, J.), rendered December 7, 1994, convicting him of murder in the second degree, criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, and criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

We reject the defendant’s contention that the court erred by refusing to instruct the jury on the defense of justification pursuant to Penal Law §§35.15 and 35.20. The evidence adduced at trial, when viewed in a light most favorable to the…