People v. Watson

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Marrus, J.), rendered March 18, 2009, convicting him of manslaughter in the first degree and criminal *1127possession of a weapon in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

Where, as here, a defendant charged with a homicide relies on a defense of justification, evidence of the victim’s prior criminal acts of violence, which acts the defendant had knowledge, is admissible provided that the acts were reasonably related to the crime with which the defendant was…