Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
Upon the exercise of our factual review power, we are satisfied that the verdict of guilt was not against the weight of the evidence (CPL 470.15 [5]) and that the defendant's conviction of murder in the second degree should not be reduced to the crime of manslaughter in the first degree. Although the defendant, through the testimony of a psychiatrist, attempted to establish that he acted under the influence of extreme emotional...
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