People v. Perez

—Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Barbara Newman, J.), rendered August 21, 2000, convicting defendant, after *360a jury trial, of manslaughter in the second degree, and sentencing him to a term of 5 to 15 years, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly rejected defendant’s request for a justification charge since there was no reasonable view of the evidence, viewed in a light most favorable to defendant, that would support such a charge (see People v Cox, 92 NY2d 1002 [1998]). Such a defense would have called upon the jury to speculate as to a version of the events that was not supported by…