People v. Sostre

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Marrus, J.), rendered May 2, 2007, convicting him of murder in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant was convicted of murder in the second degree for the shooting death of Chase Brown. The defendant contends that the Supreme Court erred in denying his request to charge the jury with manslaughter in the first degree (see Penal Law § 125.20 [1]) as a lesser-included offense, arguing that the jury reasonably could have concluded that the…