Case Name: The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Craig Gaines, Appellant
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1996-07-08
Citations: 229 A.D.2d 448
Docket Number: 
Parties: The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Craig Gaines, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 229
Pages: 448–448

Head Matter:
The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Craig Gaines, Appellant.
[645 NYS2d 510]

Opinion:
—Appeal by defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Koch, J.), rendered June 23, 1993, convicting him of reckless endangerment in the first degree, criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, and criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.
Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
The court properly refused to charge, as part of the law on justification, that the defendant did not have a duty to retreat, as the crime took place in his front yard, a place that was not "m his dwelling" (Penal Law § 35.15 [2] [a] [i] [emphasis supplied]; see also, People v Seit, 86 NY2d 92; People v Gopaul, 171 AD2d 754; People v Childs, 21 AD2d 809).
The defendant's remaining contentions are either unpreserved for appellate review or without merit. Pizzuto, J. P., Santucci, Altman and Hart, JJ., concur.