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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Reginald Jackson, Appellant.
    [698 NYS2d 887]
   —Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Lipp, J.), rendered September 18, 1997, convicting him of manslaughter in the second degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

Contrary to the defendant’s contention, no reasonable view of the evidence supports a justification charge and, thus, the trial court properly declined to give it (see, Penal Law § 35.15 [2]).

Under the circumstances of this case, the defendant was not denied the effective assistance of counsel (see, People v Baldi, 54 NY2d 137). Altman, J. P., Florio, H. Miller and Schmidt, JJ., concur.