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PEOPLE v. TORRES

1426, 4806/12.

140 A.D.3d 478 (2016)

31 N.Y.S.3d 881

2016 NY Slip Op 04456

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. ADAN TORRES, Appellant.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department.

Decided June 9, 2016.

The court properly declined to charge justification, since there was no reasonable view of the evidence, when viewed most favorably to defendant, to support that defense (see People v Goetz, 68 N.Y.2d 96, 105-106 [1986]; People v Watts, 57 N.Y.2d 299, 301 [1982]). Defendant stabbed two undisputedly unarmed men in the back. Even under the exculpatory version of the events contained in defendant...

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