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People v. Jenkins

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department
Sep 30, 1991
176 A.D.2d 348 (N.Y. App. Div. 1991)

Opinion

September 30, 1991

Appeal from the Supreme Court, Kings County (Lombardo, J.).


Ordered that the judgment is modified, on the law, by deleting the provision that the indeterminate term of imprisonment imposed upon the conviction for criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree shall run consecutively with the other terms of imprisonment imposed, and substituting therefor a provision that all the terms of imprisonment run concurrently to each other; as so modified, the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant's contention that the evidence adduced by the People was legally insufficient to establish his guilt is unpreserved for appellate review (see, People v. Bynum, 70 N.Y.2d 858; People v. Udzinski, 146 A.D.2d 245), and, in any event, is without merit (see, People v. Contes, 60 N.Y.2d 620).

Having reviewed the defendant's various claims of error with respect to the court's charge to the jury, we find that, viewing the instructions in their entirety, they adequately conveyed to the jury the appropriate standards (see, People v. Graziano, 151 A.D.2d 775, 775-776).

We further find that the court properly declined to charge criminally negligent homicide as a lesser-included offense of manslaughter in the second degree since there is no reasonable view of the evidence which would support a finding that the defendant was not aware of the substantial and unjustifiable risk of death attendant to waving a loaded gun in the victim's face (see, CPL 300.50).

However, since the defendant's possession of the loaded handgun and the shooting of the victim were both committed through a single act, we agree that the sentence imposed for the crime of criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree should run concurrently with the sentences imposed for murder in the second degree and manslaughter in the second degree, and the defendant's sentence is modified accordingly (see, Penal Law § 70.25; see also, People v. Billups, 132 A.D.2d 612). We find no merit to the claim that the sentence imposed was excessive (see, People v Suitte, 90 A.D.2d 80).

The defendant's remaining contention is unpreserved for appellate review. Harwood, J.P., Lawrence, Eiber and Balletta, JJ., concur.


Summaries of

People v. Jenkins

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department
Sep 30, 1991
176 A.D.2d 348 (N.Y. App. Div. 1991)
Case details for

People v. Jenkins

Case Details

Full title:THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. ANTHONY NEAL JENKINS…

Court:Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department

Date published: Sep 30, 1991

Citations

176 A.D.2d 348 (N.Y. App. Div. 1991)
574 N.Y.S.2d 585

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