Legal Opinion
People v. Watkins
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided July 12, 1996PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
—Judgment unanimously affirmed. Memorandum: On appeal from a judgment convicting him after a jury trial of various crimes involving damages to or thefts from five mausoleums at the Mt. Hope Cemetery in Rochester, New York, defendant contends that reversal is required because Supreme Court permitted the People, as part of their direct case, to introduce evidence of prior uncharged crimes, without conducting a Ventimiglia hearing (see, People v Ventimiglia, 52 NY2d 350).
We conclude that the court’s failure to conduct a Ventimiglia hearing was error, but that the error is harmless in light of…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- People v. VentimigliaNew York Court of Appeals · 1981
- People v. MancusoNew York Court of Appeals · 1968
- People v. HollowayAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1992
- People v. BoylanAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1993
- People v. ThomasAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1994
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