PEOPLE v. ADAMS


259 A.D.2d 299 (1999)

688 N.Y.S.2d 1

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. NYEEN ADAMS, Also Known as ADAMS NYEEN, Appellant.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department.

Decided March 9, 1999.


Even when examined in a light most favorable to defendant, there was no reasonable view of the evidence, including the evidence presented by defendant in his offer of proof, that defendant used deadly physical force in defense of his nephew, who was inside an apartment, far from the street where the deadly altercation occurred. Therefore, the court properly precluded the evidence offered by defendant to support his claim of defense of a third party and declined to deliver...

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