People v. Weir

*448Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Bonnie Wittner, J.), rendered February 21, 2003, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of assault in the second degree, criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree and petit larceny, and sentencing him, as a second violent felony offender, to concurrent terms of 6 years, 3 to 6 years and 1 year, respectively, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly declined to charge justification since there was no reasonable view of the evidence, viewed in the light most favorable to defendant, that when he used a knife against unarmed store security…