People v. Bailey

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Cozier, J.), rendered October 12, 1993, convicting him of manslaughter in the first degree, criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, and assault in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

Although the court’s instruction to the jury that no adverse inference may be drawn from the defendant’s failure to testify on his own behalf included more than the statutory language (see, CPL 300.10 [2]), the instruction was neutral in tone, consistent in…