People v. Hutchinson

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Heller, J.), rendered September 5, 1984, convicting her of manslaughter in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant contends that the trial court committed reversible error in refusing to admit evidence of an assault committed by the victim on a third party on the night of the incident. Where justification is an issue, a defendant may introduce evidence of the victim’s prior specific acts of violence directed to a third party of which the…