People v. Cotto
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Marcy Kahn, J.), rendered April 16, 1996, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of murder in the second degree, criminal use of a firearm in the first degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, and sentencing him to concurrent terms of 25 years to life, 10 to 20 years and 21/s to 7 years, respectively, unanimously affirmed.
The court properly admitted into evidence the unsworn but highly reliable out-of-court statements of a prosecution witness (see, 169 Misc 2d 194), since misconduct by defendant in intimidating the witness…
2Cases cited7 opinions
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