Order of the Appellate Division affirmed.
On no view of the evidence has a justification defense been established. Even if defendant had actually believed that he had been threatened with the imminent use of deadly physical force, and there is no evidence that he had so believed, his reactions were not those of a reasonable man acting in self-defense (Penal Law, § 35.15). If his fear had been that...
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