People v. Cleophus
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (D’Emic, J.), rendered October 27, 2008, convicting him of criminal contempt in the first degree and menacing in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.
*845Ordered that the judgment is reversed, on the law, and the matter is remitted to the Supreme Court, Kings County, for a new trial.
The defendant was charged with criminal contempt in the first degree on the ground that he violated an order of protection (see Penal Law § 215.51 [c]). The element of that offense which distinguishes it from the lesser…
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