People v. Rivera

— Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Hayes, J.), rendered March 19, 1982, convicting him of manslaughter in the first degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

On appeal, the defendant objects for the first time to the court’s use of the phrase “reasonable man” in explaining the concept of “reasonable doubt” and the trial court’s statement to the jury “it [reasonable doubt] is a doubt for which a juror can give a reason if he is called upon to do so…