People v. DeFairia

— Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Stephen L. Barrett, J.), rendered November 15, 1988, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of manslaughter in the first degree, assault in the third degree, and criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree, and sentencing him to a term of IVi to 22 Vi years to run concurrently with two 1 year terms, unanimously affirmed.

The evidence regarding defendant’s tirade in the hallway approximately thirty minutes before he punched one of the victims in the face and forty-five minutes before he stabbed the other victim to death was properly admitted…