Legal Opinion
People v. Polhill
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided February 1, 1993PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
— Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Calabretta, J., at trial; Beldock, J., at sentencing), rendered June 17, 1991, convicting him of robbery in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.
Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
The defendant contends that the trial court committed error by failing to charge the jury that one of the prosecution witnesses was an accomplice as a matter of law whose testimony required corroboration in order to support a conviction. Since the defendant failed to specifically request an accomplice…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- People v. GlasperNew York Court of Appeals · 1981
- People v. MinarichNew York Court of Appeals · 1979
- People v. RamosAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1979
- People v. StrawderAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1986
- People v. CoicoAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1991
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3Cited by4 opinions
- People v. OdiotAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1997
- People v. OrtizAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1995
- People v. ScullarkAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2000
- People v. WinbushAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1994