People v. Medina

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Harold Beeler, J.), rendered May 27, 1998, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of manslaughter in the first degree, and sentencing him to a term of 5 to 15 years, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly granted the People’s request to charge manslaughter in the first degree as a lesser included offense of murder in the second degree. There was a reasonable view of the evidence that defendant only intended to inflict serious physical injury upon the victim and not cause death, since defendant held the victim as he was being stabbed by the…