Legal Opinion

People v. Young

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

Decided December 16, 1999Published

1Opinion of the Court

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Marcy Kahn, J.), rendered February 10, 1998, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of robbery in the second degree, and sentencing him, as a second violent felony offender, to a term of 9 years, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant’s motion to set aside the verdict on the ground of juror misconduct was properly denied. The procedure employed *114by the jurors was a visualization of evidence in the record, based on everyday experience, and was performed in the confines of the jury deliberation room. This was not a contrived experiment, and there was no…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. People v. BrownNew York Court of Appeals · 1979
  2. People v. SmithNew York Court of Appeals · 1983
  3. People v. LennonAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1996

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