People v. Valentin

Upon remittitur from the Court of Appeals for further consideration (29 NY3d 57 [2017]), judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Robert A. Sackett, J.), rendered September 28, 2011, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of manslaughter in the first degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 20 years, unanimously reversed, as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, and the matter remanded for a new trial.

In his 2015 appeal to this Court, defendant argued, among other things, that the trial court, under the facts of this case, erred by including an…