Opinion
2011-10-25
The PEOPLE, etc., respondent,v.Pedro IRIZARRY, appellant.
Lynn W.L. Fahey, New York, N.Y. (Jonathan M. Kratter of counsel), for appellant.Charles J. Hynes, District Attorney, Brooklyn, N.Y. (Leonard Joblove and Shulamit Rosenblum Nemec of counsel), for respondent.
Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Tomei, J.), rendered February 1, 2007, convicting him of murder in the second degree and assault in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.
ORDERED that the judgment is affirmed.
Where, as here, “a court charges the next lesser included offense of the crime alleged in the indictment, but refuses to charge lesser degrees than that ... the defendant's conviction of the crime alleged in the indictment forecloses a challenge to the court's refusal to charge the remote lesser included offenses” ( People v. Boettcher, 69 N.Y.2d 174, 180, 513 N.Y.S.2d 83, 505 N.E.2d 594; see
People v. Green, 5 N.Y.3d 538, 545, 807 N.Y.S.2d 321, 841 N.E.2d 289; People v. Alston, 77 A.D.3d 762, 762, 909 N.Y.S.2d 115). “Thus, review of the defendant's challenge to the [Supreme] Court's refusal to charge manslaughter in the second degree as a lesser-included offense of murder in the second degree is foreclosed by the jury verdict finding him guilty of murder in the second degree, the crime alleged in the indictment, and its implicit rejection of the lesser-included offense of manslaughter in the first degree” ( People v. Gorham, 72 A.D.3d 1108, 1109, 900 N.Y.S.2d 141; see People v. Johnson, 87 N.Y.2d 357, 361, 639 N.Y.S.2d 776, 662 N.E.2d 1066; People v. Alston, 77 A.D.3d at 762, 909 N.Y.S.2d 115).
MASTRO, J.P., ENG, BELEN and HALL, JJ., concur.