Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
The trial court properly declined to submit manslaughter in the first degree to the jury on the theory of "extreme emotional disturbance", as there was insufficient evidence for a jury to find, by a preponderance of the evidence, that the elements of this affirmative defense to murder in the second degree were established (see, People v Walker,
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