Legal Opinion
People v. Grant
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided May 27, 2015No. 2011-00455PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Buchter, J.), rendered December 15, 2010, convicting him of murder in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.
Ordered that the judgment is reversed, on the law and the facts, and a new trial is ordered.
Viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution (see People v Contes, 60 NY2d 620 [1983]), we find that it was legally sufficient to establish the defendant’s identity as the perpetrator of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt (see People v Ayala, 121 AD3d 1124 [2014]; People v…
2Cases cited33 opinions
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- People v. ContesNew York Court of Appeals · 1983
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- People v. RomeroNew York Court of Appeals · 2006
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