People v. Paris
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
—Judgment affirmed. Memorandum: Defendant appeals from a judgment following a jury trial convicting him of robbery in the second degree, criminal possession of stolen property in the fifth degree and assault in the third degree. Defendant contends that County Court’s use of the words "substantial doubt” in the charge to the jury on reasonable doubt impermissibly reduced the People’s burden of proof. In its charge, the court stated that a reasonable doubt was not "mere conjecture, whim or surmise”, and that "a doubt of guilt is not reasonable if it is based merely on sympathy for the defendant…
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