Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
The defendant contends that the court committed reversible error in failing to charge the jury on justification. However, a trial court need not charge a jury with respect to an accused's proffered defense of justification if no reasonable view of the evidence establishes the basic element of the defense (People v Watts,
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