People v. Brown

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (James Leff, J.), rendered January 9, 1991, convicting defendant, after jury trial, of manslaughter in the first degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 12 Vi to 25 years, to run consecutively with a term of 3 to 6 years for violation of probation, unanimously affirmed.

The trial court properly denied defendant’s request for a *439jury charge that defendant would be justified in using deadly physical force against the deceased upon a finding that defendant reasonably believed the deceased was about to commit a robbery against…