People v. Turner

Judgment of the Supreme Court, New York County (Peter McQuillan, J.), rendered May 24, 1985, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of manslaughter in the first degree and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a prison term of IVi to 15 years, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant, charged with murder in the second degree, was convicted, after jury trial, of the lesser offense of manslaughter in the first degree. At trial, defendant admitted stabbing Robert Bledsoe, his roommate, in an alleyway near the apartment they shared on Convent Avenue, but claimed that he was justified, as the…