People v. Weir

14 A.D.3d 447, 788 N.Y.S.2d 368, 2005 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 572

Opinion

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Bonnie Wittner, J.), rendered February 21, 2003, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of assault in the second degree, criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree and petit larceny, and sentencing him, as a second violent felony offender, to concurrent terms of 6 years, 3 to 6 years and 1 year, respectively, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly declined to charge justification since there was no reasonable view of the evidence, viewed in the light most favorable to defendant, that when he used a knife against unarmed store security guards, he reasonably believed the guards were using or about to use deadly force against him (see People v Morales, 11 AD3d 259 [2004]). There was also no reasonable view of the evidence that defendant used anything other than deadly physical force. Concur—Buckley, P.J., Mazzarelli, Sullivan, Williams and Gonzalez, JJ.