Legal Opinion

People v. Hill

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

Decided April 30, 1996PublishedCited by 8 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Lawrence J. Tonetti, J.), rendered November 29, 1989, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of murder in the second degree, and sentencing him to a term of 15 years to life imprisonment, unanimously reversed, on the law, and the matter remanded for a new trial.

The evidence at trial established that on an October evening in 1979, defendant was involved in a steadily escalating argument with the decedent, Edward Simmons, on the Grand Concourse of the Bronx, arising from a collision between the latter’s car and his own. The altercation apparently…

2Cases cited9 opinions

  1. People v. SteeleNew York Court of Appeals · 1970
  2. People v. TorreNew York Court of Appeals · 1977
  3. People v. HuntleyNew York Court of Appeals · 1983
  4. People v. HuntleyAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1982
  5. People v. JeffriesAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1990

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3Cited by8 opinions

  1. Humphrey v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1998
  2. People v. CollierAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2003
  3. People v. CarreraAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2001
  4. People v. MorganAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2002
  5. People v. DelinAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2016

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