Legal Opinion

People v. Vargas

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

Decided February 6, 1995PublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Egitto, J.), rendered April 2, 1992, convicting him of murder in the second degree (two counts) and attempted robbery in the first degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant contends that the trial court erred in refusing to charge manslaughter in the second degree as a lesser-included offense of depraved indifference murder. We find, however, that there was no reasonable view of the evidence which would support a finding that the defendant committed the…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. People v. RoeNew York Court of Appeals · 1989
  2. People v. ButlerNew York Court of Appeals · 1994
  3. People v. OchoaAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1988
  4. People v. ZebrowskiAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1993
  5. People v. MurrayAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1994

3Cited by1 opinion

  1. People v. TinchAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2010

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