People v. Jenkins

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Harold Rothwax, J.), rendered April 5, 1989, convicting defendant of manslaughter in the first degree, and sentencing him to an indeterminate term of imprisonment of 12Vi to 25 years, unanimously affirmed.

In the early morning hours of December 14, 1987, decedent Arnold Herring was lured into the lobby of an apartment building at 310 East 102nd Street where at the instigation of Louis Johnson and Jackie Douglas, he was set upon. The assault committed by defendant Jenkins, Johnson, Douglas, Ronald Woods, Albert Turner, Kay Smith and others consisted of…