Legal Opinion
People v. Kong
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided June 22, 1987PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Nassáu County (Harris, J.), rendered September 7, 1984, convicting him of burglary in the third degree and grand larceny in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.
Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
During the instant trial, the defendant offered, inter alia, testimony from two friends as character witnesses. These two character witnesses testified on direct examination that they *784and the defendant belonged to the same social club, which one of the witnesses stated was called the "Jamaica Social Club”. On…
2Cases cited5 opinions
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