PEOPLE v. AZAZ


41 A.D.3d 610 (2007)

837 N.Y.S.2d 339

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. NAGMELDEEN AZAZ, Appellant.

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

Decided June 12, 2007.


Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The jury's determination that the defendant failed to prove by a preponderance of the evidence that he was acting "under the influence of extreme emotional disturbance for which there was a reasonable explanation or excuse" when he stabbed and killed his wife was not against the weight of the evidence (Penal Law § 125.25 [1] [a]; see Penal Law § 125.20 [2]; People v Roche, 98 N.Y.2d 70...

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