Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
Contrary to the defendant's contention, the Supreme Court properly declined to charge manslaughter in the second degree as a lesser-included offense of depraved indifference murder. Under no reasonable view of the evidence could the jury have found that the defendant committed the lesser offense but not the greater when he fired a semiautomatic nine-millimeter handgun into a crowd of people (see People v Martin,
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