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THE JURY SHOULD HAVE BEEN INSTRUCTED TO CONSIDER THE INCLUSORY CONCURRENT COUNT (MURDER SECOND) AND THE TOP COUNT (MURDER FIRST) IN THE ALTERNATIVE; THE ERROR NEED NOT BE PRESERVED FOR APPEAL (FOURTH DEPT).

The Fourth Department, noting that the issues need not be preserved for appeal, determined the jury should have been instructed to consider the top count, murder first degree, and the inclusory concurrent count, murder second degree, in the alternative:

… [T]he court should have instructed the jury to consider count two “only in the alternative as an inclusory concurrent count” of count one … . The court, … erred when it did not instruct the jury to consider counts one and two in the alernative and instead directed the jury to consider the lesser included offenses of manslaughter in the first degree and manslaughter in the second degree for each of the two murder charges. That error resulted in the jury improperly returning a verdict convicting defendant of two identical counts of manslaughter in the first degree with respect to the same victim. We therefore … modify the judgment by reversing the conviction of manslaughter in the first degree under count two of the indictment and dismissing that count of the indictment … . People v Smith, 2020 NY Slip Op 04702, Fourth Dept 8-20-20

 

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