Legal Opinion
The People v. Lerio Guerrero
New York Court of Appeals
Decided October 27, 2016No. 145PublishedCited by 52 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Pigott, J.
The primary issue on this appeal is whether defendant, by pleading guilty to all of the counts of an amended indictment, forfeited his right to challenge the legal sufficiency of the so-called “DNA indictment”1 and the subsequent amendment that added only his name to that indictment. We hold that defendant, by pleading guilty, forfeited his right to challenge both the underlying “DNA indictment” and the amended indictment that named him.
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On November 8, 1998, a man attacked a woman as she was entering her apartment. The man held a piece of broken glass to the…
2Cases cited15 opinions
- People v. TaranovichNew York Court of Appeals · 1975
- People v. IannoneNew York Court of Appeals · 1978
- People v. HansenNew York Court of Appeals · 2000
- People v. KoniecznyNew York Court of Appeals · 2004
- People v. FernandezNew York Court of Appeals · 1986
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3Cited by52 opinions
- People v. BlanfordAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2020
- People v. DickersonAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2021
- Guerrero v. LamannaDistrict Court, S.D. Illinois · 2018
- People v. ManraghNew York Court of Appeals · 2018
- People v. MartinAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2020
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