The trial court was not obligated to charge the affirmative defense to murder in the second degree that defendant acted under the influence of extreme emotional disturbance (Penal Law § 125.25 [1] [a]), where the evidence at trial, in large part supplied by defendant's confession, that defendant, a week before the murder, had warned the victim's mother that the victim would be killed if he did not return a gun defendant had loaned him, and, on the day of the shooting...
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