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PEOPLE v. WATSON

2009-03532.

84 A.D.3d 1126 (2011)

923 N.Y.S.2d 219

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. CARL WATSON, Appellant.

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

Decided May 17, 2011.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

Where, as here, a defendant charged with a homicide relies on a defense of justification, evidence of the victim's prior criminal acts of violence, which acts the defendant had knowledge, is admissible provided that the acts were reasonably related to the crime with which the defendant was charged (see People v Reynoso, 73 N.Y.2d 816, 818 [1988]; People v Miller,

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