People v. Alvarez
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Rappaport, J.), rendered December 4, 1991, convicting him of manslaughter in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.
Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
This conviction emanates from an altercation between the defendant and John Betancourt, the boyfriend of the defendant’s estranged wife, which resulted in Betancourt’s death from a single gunshot fired by the defendant. The defendant was charged with murder in the second degree (Penal Law § 125.25 [1]), and, at trial, the court submitted to the…
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