Legal Opinion
People v. Carter
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided January 21, 1980PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Appeal by defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County, rendered December 15, 1978, convicting him of murder in the second degree, upon his plea of guilty, and sentencing him to a prison term of from 20 years to life. Judgment affirmed. The trial court’s use at sentencing of an aphorism ascribed to a religious work in describing the allegedly predatory characteristics evinced by this defendant was not an establishment of religion by the State in violation of the Federal or State Constitutions (see, e.g., Committee for Public Educ. v Nyquist, 413 US 756; Walz v Tax Comm., 397…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Walz v. Tax Comm'n of City of New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
- Engel v. VitaleSupreme Court of the United States · 1962
- Committee for Public Education & Religious Liberty v. NyquistSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
- People v. LuongoNew York Court of Appeals · 1979
- People v. LuongoAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1977
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3Cited by2 opinions
- Carter v. ScullyDistrict Court, E.D. New York · 1990
- Carter v. ScullyDistrict Court, E.D. New York · 1990