People v. Rowley

*578Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Edgar G. Walker, J.), rendered August 24, 2011, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of manslaughter in the first degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, and sentencing him to an aggregate term of 25 years, unanimously modified, as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, to the extent of vacating the manslaughter conviction and remanding for a new trial on that charge, and otherwise affirmed.

As in People v Velez (131 AD3d 129 [1st Dept 2015]), reversal in the interest of justice is warranted by the court’s failure…