Legal Opinion
People v. Garcia
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided October 5, 2000PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Robert Straus, J.), rendered March 24, 1997, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of two counts of murder in the second degree and four counts of robbery in the first degree, and sentencing him to concurrent terms of 25 years to life on the murder convictions, to run consecutively to consecutive terms of SVs to 25 years on the robbery convictions, unanimously affirmed.
The court properly rejected defendant’s claims made pursuant to Batson v Kentucky (476 US 79). The court made a suitable inquiry as to a venireperson whose ethnicity was questioned.…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Batson v. KentuckySupreme Court of the United States · 1986
- Hernandez v. New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1991
- People v. HernandezNew York Court of Appeals · 1990
- People v. ChildressNew York Court of Appeals · 1993
- People v. De ToreNew York Court of Appeals · 1974
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3Cited by3 opinions
- People v. JonesAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2002
- Garcia v. PortuondoCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2004
- People v. CulberoAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2001