Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
The court properly refused to charge, as part of the law on justification, that the defendant did not have a duty to retreat, as the crime took place in his front yard, a place that was not "in his dwelling" (Penal Law § 35.15 [2] [a] [i] [emphasis supplied]; see also, People v Seit,
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