People v. Ramos

OPINION OF THE COURT

Memorandum.

The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed.

Defendant was indicted and tried on charges of murder, attempted murder and possession of a weapon stemming from an incident in which two men were shot, one of them fatally. At trial defendant raised justification, claiming that he came to the defense of another and joined an altercation upon observing two brothers attacking that other person with a stick. Defendant claimed the two brothers then came at him, one swinging a bat and the other wielding a cleaver.

On cross-examination, the prosecution impeached…