People v. Bernard
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Kay, J.), rendered July 16, 1993, convicting him of murder in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.
Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
The defendant contends that the trial court’s charge on the defense of justification was misleading because the objective portion of the charge failed to instruct the jurors that they should put themselves in his shoes and consider the circumstances as they appeared to him. This claim of error is unpreserved for appellate review (see, CPL 470.05 [2]; People…
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