Legal Opinion
People v. Brodeur
Criminal Court of the City of New York
Decided July 18, 2013PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Michael Gerstein, J.
“All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely *1072players,” William Shakespeare famously wrote in As You Like It. The “stage” for this case is the world of who were formerly downtown Manhattan performing artists, now largely relocated to Brooklyn, particularly Williamsburg and the surrounding neighborhoods. The “players” in our case consist of the two “stars,” complainant Harry Stuckey and defendant Christopher Brodeur, and a number of supporting players, all involved in the performing arts scene as musicians, poets, filmmakers and the like.
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2Cases cited21 opinions
- Chaplinsky v. New HampshireSupreme Court of the United States · 1942
- Texas v. JohnsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1989
- Virginia v. BlackSupreme Court of the United States · 2003
- Watts v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
- People v. ShackNew York Court of Appeals · 1995
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3Cited by4 opinions
- People v. VenturoCriminal Court of the City of New York · 2015
- People v. Brodeur (Christopher)Appellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York · 2017
- People v. RodriguezCriminal Court of the City of New York · 2015
- People v. ScaleraHudson City Court · 2017