Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
The Supreme Court properly denied the defendant's request to charge manslaughter in the first degree and manslaughter in the second degree as lesser-included offenses of murder in the first degree and murder in the second degree (Penal Law § 125.25 [1]). Viewed in the light most favorable to the defendant (see People v Devonish,
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