People v. Johnson

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Lipp, J.), rendered November 30, 1994, convicting him of manslaughter in the second degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

Seconds before seeing the defendant holding the victim down on a bed, his hands near her throat and her head pushed up against the wall, the victim’s sister heard her say, “Larry, get off of me. I can’t breathe.” Under these circumstances, the court properly admitted testimony by the…