Legal Opinion

People v. Arroyo

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

Decided April 3, 1997Published

1Opinion of the Court

—Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Lawrence Tonetti, J.), rendered February 16, 1995, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, and unlawful possession of marihuana, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 3 to 6 years, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant has not preserved his present challenges to portions of the court’s charge which made reference to the jury’s function in determining truth and we decline to review them in the interest of justice. Were we to review them, we would find that the charge, taken as a…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. People v. BrownAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1995
  2. People v. PenaAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1993

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