People v. Cardenas
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Nassau County (Mogil, J.), rendered January 10, 1995, convicting him of criminally negligent homicide (two counts) and tampering with physical evidence, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.
Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
The defendant was the driver of a vehicle with which he knowingly struck two pedestrians. The defendant fled from the scene, admittedly attempted to clean blood evidence off his vehicle, and removed the vehicle’s license plates.
Viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution (see,…
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