Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
The defendant shot and killed the decedent inside a diner during the early morning hours of January 6, 2013, following a confrontation between the defendant and the decedent's girlfriend moments earlier. After a jury trial, during which the defendant claimed he shot the decedent in self-defense, the defendant was convicted of murder in the second degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree.
The defendant...
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