Legal Opinion
People v. Colon
New York Court of Appeals
Decided November 19, 2009PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Graffeo, J.
Shortly after midnight on December 8, 1989, the occupants of a van opened fire on two cars at a Manhattan intersection, killing two men and wounding two others. In the fall of 1990, defendants Danny Colon and Anthony Ortiz were arrested in connection with the shootings and charged with four counts each of second-degree murder, attempted second-degree murder and first-degree assault, as well as various weapons offenses.
At their joint trial in 1993, only two witnesses linked defendants to the crime. Aníbal Vera, a childhood friend and former associate of Colon in…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- People v. VilardiNew York Court of Appeals · 1990
- People v. SteadmanNew York Court of Appeals · 1993
- People v. PressleyNew York Court of Appeals · 1997
- People v. OrtizAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1997
- People v. ColonAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2008
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3Cited by30 opinions
- People v. HarrisAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2012
- People v. JohnsonAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2013
- People v. LewisAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2015
- People v. HeimrothAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2020
- People v. ColonAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2017
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