Legal Opinion
People v. Hooks
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided August 18, 1983PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
— Appeal from a judgment of the County Court of Broome County (Coutant, J.), rendered June 25, 1982, upon a verdict convicting defendant of two counts of the crime of manslaughter in the first degree. Following a jury trial, defendant was convicted of two counts of manslaughter in the first degree. Although defendant testified that he was acting in self-defense in stabbing the two victims, there was evidence upon which the jury could have found the following version of the events: at about 9:30 in the evening of September 14, 1981, defendant left his apartment to walk to a nearby Grand Union…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- Lockett v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1978
- Solem v. HelmSupreme Court of the United States · 1983
- Rummel v. EstelleSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
- Weems v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1910
- Coker v. GeorgiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
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3Cited by5 opinions
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