People v. Peterson

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Juanita Bing Newton, J.) rendered April 20, 1992, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of manslaughter in the second degree, and sentencing him as a predicate felony offender to a term of IV2 to 15 years, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant was observed as he provoked a confrontation with the considerably older victim, apparently because the victim was selling newspapers on a particular corner. After the defendant threw the victim’s newspapers down a subway entrance’s steps, the victim pulled out a length of pipe from his pocket, but he continued to…