Legal Opinion
People v. Ortega
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided November 12, 1985PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
—Appeal by defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Shaw, J.), rendered November 17, 1982, convicting him of manslaughter in the first degree, upon his plea of guilty, and imposing sentence.
Judgment affirmed.
The sole contention raised by defendant, who was 17 years of age at the time of sentencing, is that the court improperly denied him youthful offender status. In view of the violent and brutal nature of defendant’s crime, youthful offender status was denied. The court went on to sentence defendant to an indeterminate prison term of 5 to 15 years in lieu of the…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- People v. DraytonNew York Court of Appeals · 1976
- People v. WilliamsAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1980
- People v. MassaAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1983
3Cited by27 opinions
- People v. ShrubsallAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1990
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- People v. BeerAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2017
- People v. HesterbeyAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2014
- People v. DraytonAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1993
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