People v. Ramos

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Lombardo, J.), rendered December 14, 1988, convicting him of manslaughter in the first degree, criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, and criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

On appeal the defendant contends that he was denied a fair trial by the court’s justification charge, which, inter alia, included allegedly unwarranted instructions concerning the principles of "initial aggressor” and provocation.…