Case Name: The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Pedro Irizarry, Appellant
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 2011-10-25
Citations: 88 A.D.3d 1013
Docket Number: 
Parties: The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Pedro Irizarry, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 88
Pages: 1013–1014

Head Matter:
The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Pedro Irizarry, Appellant.
[931 NYS2d 882]

Opinion:
Where, as here, "a court charges the next lesser included offense of the crime alleged in the indictment, but refuses to charge lesser degrees than that . . . the defendant's conviction of the crime alleged in the indictment forecloses a challenge to the court's refusal to charge the remote lesser included offenses" (People v Boettcher, 69 NY2d 174, 180 [1987]; see People v Green, 5 NY3d 538, 545 [2005]; People v Alston, 77 AD3d 762, 762 [2010]). "Thus, review of the defendant's challenge to the [Supreme] Court's refusal to charge manslaughter in the second degree as a lesser-included offense of murder in the second degree is foreclosed by the jury verdict finding him guilty of murder in the second degree, the crime alleged in the indictment, and its implicit rejection of the lesser-included offense of manslaughter in the first degree" (People v Gorham, 72 AD3d 1108, 1109 [2010]; see People v Johnson, 87 NY2d 357, 361 [1996]; People v Alston, 77 AD3d at 762). Mastro, J.E, Eng, Belen and Hall, JJ., concur.