People v. Morales

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Megan Tallmer, J.), rendered June 17, 2002, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of murder in the second degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, and sentencing him to concurrent terms of 25 years to life and 5 to 15 years, respectively, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly declined to charge justification since there was no reasonable view of the evidence, when viewed most favorably to defendant, to support such a defense. Even under defendant’s version of the facts, he was clearly the initial aggressor when he pointed a…