Legal Opinion
People v. Moon
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided December 1, 1998PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Edwin Torres, J.), rendered July 28, 1997, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the fifth degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 3V2 to 7 years, unanimously affirmed.
The verdict was based on legally sufficient evidence. The People did not rely on incompetent hearsay evidence to prove that defendant possessed at least 500 milligrams of cocaine. “[T]he police chemist’s reliance on a colleague’s test results was proper for evidentiary purposes because the colleague’s…
2Cases cited5 opinions
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