People v. Coello

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Ralph A. Fabrizio, J.), rendered November 14, 2012, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of murder in the second degree, and sentencing him to a term of 25 years to life, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly denied defendant’s request for a jury charge on the affirmative defense of extreme emotional disturbance. There was no reasonable view of the evidence, viewed most favorably to defendant, that he had established, by a preponderance of the evidence, either the subjective element of the defense, that he “acted under the influence of an extreme…