Since the jury convicted defendant of the reduced charge of first-degree manslaughter, based on extreme emotional disturbance, defendant's argument that the court erred in refusing to charge first-degree manslaughter as a lesser included offense of second-degree murder is academic. In any case, the trial court correctly concluded that there was no reasonable view of the evidence that defendant merely intended to cause serious physical injury to the decedent, but did not intend...
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