PEOPLE v. SINGLETON


39 A.D.3d 375 (2007)

833 N.Y.S.2d 503

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. TYRONE SINGLETON, Appellant.

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

Decided April 19, 2007.


The court properly declined to deliver a justification charge to the jury, because no reasonable view of the evidence, viewed in a light most favorable to defendant, supported such a charge (see People v Cox, 92 N.Y.2d 1002, 1004 [1998]). Even though the victim, at one point, reached toward his waistband, by the time defendant stabbed the victim he was well aware that the victim posed no threat. Furthermore, defendant initiated the...

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