Legal Opinion
People v. Beals
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided December 23, 2003PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Edward McLaughlin, J.), rendered October 25, 2002, convicting defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of robbery in the second degree, and sentencing him, as a second violent felony offender, to a term of seven years, unanimously affirmed.
The court was not obligated, sua sponte, to order a psychiatric examination of defendant since there was no reasonable ground to believe that he was unable to understand the proceedings or to assist in his defense (see Pate v Robinson, 383 US 375 [1966]; People v Tortorici, 92 NY2d 757 [1999], cert denied 528 US 834…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Cuyler v. SullivanSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
- Pate v. RobinsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
- People v. AlexanderNew York Court of Appeals · 2002
- People v. TortoriciNew York Court of Appeals · 1999
- People v. MorganNew York Court of Appeals · 1995
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