People v. Sadler

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York

People v. Sadler

2017 NY Slip Op 6464, 153 A.D.3d 1285, 59 N.Y.S.3d 710

CourtAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

DecidedSeptember 13, 2017

Docket2016-03815

StatusPublished

Cited by5 cases

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People v. Sadler, 2017 NY Slip Op 6464, 153 A.D.3d 1285, 59 N.Y.S.3d 710 (N.Y. Ct. App. 2017).

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Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Nassau County (Harrington, J.), rendered April 1, 2016, convicting him of manslaughter in the first degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

Viewing the record in the light most favorable to the defendant, we agree with the Supreme Court that there was no reasonable view of the evidence by which the jury could have found that the defendant was justified in using deadly physical force because he reasonably believed that the victim was committing or attempting to commit a robbery (see Penal Law § 35.15 [2] [b]; People v Sparks, 29 NY3d 932, 934 [2017]). According to the defendant’s statement to the police, he was robbed by the victim. However, there was unrebutted evidence, including but not limited to, the defendant’s statement to the police, that after an encounter between the defendant, the victim, and the victim’s friend, the defendant went to his car, opened the trunk, retrieved a machete, and returned to the victim and his friend, where he swung the machete at the victim’s neck. Accordingly, under these circumstances, the court properly denied the defendant’s request to instruct the jury on the defense of justification (see People v Jenkins, 81 AD3d 662, 663 [2011]).

Mastro, J.P., Hall, Cohen and Iannacci, JJ., concur.

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Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Nassau County (Harrington, J.), rendered April 1, 2016, convicting him of manslaughter in the first degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

Viewing the record in the light most favorable to the defendant, we agree with the Supreme Court that there was no reasonable view of the evidence by which the jury could have found that the defendant was justified in using deadly physical force because he reasonably believed that the victim was committing or attempting to commit a robbery (see Penal Law § 35.15 [2] [b]; People v Sparks, 29 NY3d 932, 934 [2017]). According to the defendant’s statement to the police, he was robbed by the victim. However, there was unrebutted evidence, including but not limited to, the defendant’s statement to the police, that after an encounter between the defendant, the victim, and the victim’s friend, the defendant went to his car, opened the trunk, retrieved a machete, and returned to the victim and his friend, where he swung the machete at the victim’s neck. Accordingly, under these circumstances, the court properly denied the defendant’s request to instruct the jury on the defense of justification (see People v Jenkins, 81 AD3d 662, 663 [2011]).

Mastro, J.P., Hall, Cohen and Iannacci, JJ., concur.

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2017 NY Slip Op 6464, 153 A.D.3d 1285, 59 N.Y.S.3d 710, Counsel Stack Legal Research, https://law.counselstack.com/opinion/people-v-sadler-nyappdiv-2017.

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