People v. Sellers

Appeal by defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Demakos, J.), rendered August 8, 1983, convicting him of manslaughter in the first degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Judgment modified, on the law, by reducing defendant’s sentence from an indeterminate term of imprisonment of 10 *851to 25 years to an indeterminate term of imprisonment of 8 Vs to 25 years upon his conviction of manslaughter in the first degree. As so modified, judgment affirmed.

The People disproved defendant’s claim of justification…