Legal Opinion

People v. Williams

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

Decided September 27, 1993PublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Goldstein, J.), rendered March 14, 1991, convicting her of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant’s contention regarding the inadequacy of the court’s adverse inference charge, imposed as an appropriate sanction for the destruction of the scratch paper upon which the arresting officer had originally written the descriptions of the perpetrators (see, People v Wallace, 76 NY2d 953; People v Rosario, 9…

2Cases cited7 opinions

  1. People v. SuitteAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1982
  2. People v. RosarioNew York Court of Appeals · 1961
  3. People v. ThomasNew York Court of Appeals · 1980
  4. People v. MartinezNew York Court of Appeals · 1988
  5. People v. WallaceNew York Court of Appeals · 1990

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3Cited by1 opinion

  1. People v. SamuelAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1996

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