Legal Opinion

People v. Fernandez

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

Decided March 14, 2000PublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

—Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Frank Torres, J.), rendered July 1, 1997, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 3V2 to 7 years, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly admitted testimony that, after an unspecified conversation between the arresting officers and a nontestifying bystander, the officers focused their attention on defendant. Defendant failed to preserve his present claim that such testimony constituted implicit hearsay, and related challenges to…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. People v. ClarkeNew York Court of Appeals · 1993
  2. People v. BrowningAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1996

3Cited by1 opinion

  1. People v. RosadoCriminal Court of the City of New York · 2002

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