PEOPLE v. DICKERSON

2007-04080.

67 A.D.3d 700 (2009)

889 N.Y.S.2d 199

2009 NY Slip Op 08031

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. TORRANCE DICKERSON, Appellant.

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

Decided November 4, 2009.


Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The County Court properly denied the defendant's request to charge manslaughter in the second degree as a lesser-included offense of murder in the second degree. Viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the defendant, there was no reasonable view of the evidence that would support a finding that the defendant acted recklessly when he shot the decedent (see CPL 300.50 [1]; People v Wright,

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