People v. Howell

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Gerges, J.), rendered March 25, 2004, convicting him of murder in the second degree, after a nonjury trial, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is modified, on the law, by reducing the defendant’s conviction of the crime of murder in the second degree to manslaughter in the first degree and vacating the sentence imposed thereon; as so modified, the judgment is affirmed, and the matter is remitted to the Supreme Court, Kings County, for sentencing on the conviction of manslaughter in the first degree.

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