Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
The Supreme Court properly denied the defendant's request for a justification charge since no reasonable view of the evidence supported such a charge. The defendant stabbed the victim in the neck, when the victim was unarmed, and the defendant had no reason to believe that the victim was carrying a weapon or was about to use deadly physical force against him (see People v Reynoso,
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