People v. Braithwaite

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Frank Diaz, J.), rendered February 14, 1990, convicting defendant, after jury trial, of manslaughter in the first degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 12-V2 to 25 years, unanimously affirmed.

The People presented overwhelming evidence at trial that defendant, armed and accompanied by three other armed men, forced his way into the victim’s apartment. As the occupants of the apartment ran for cover, the victim’s then nine year old son (who gave sworn testimony at the trial, approximately two years after the incident)…