Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
The trial evidence showed that after drinking wine with a friend, the defendant took his rifle to the roof of his Brooklyn apartment building and fired approximately 17 shots onto the street below, killing two persons and wounding another. On appeal, the defendant argues that the court erred in refusing to instruct the jury that his chronic alcoholism rendered his intoxication involuntary so as to negate the mens rea element...
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