Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
Where a defendant charged with an attempted homicide relies on a defense of justification, evidence of a victim's prior acts of violence, of which the defendant had knowledge, are admissible provided that the acts were reasonably related to the crime with which the defendant was charged (see People v Reynoso,
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