Legal Opinion
People v. Acevedo
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided December 5, 2013PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Edward J. McLaughlin, J.), rendered December 19, 2011, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of murder in the second degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, and sentencing him to an aggregate term of 25 years to life, unanimously modified, as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, to the extent of reducing the sentence on the murder conviction to a term of 20 years to life, and otherwise affirmed.
The court properly declined to submit manslaughter in the first degree as a lesser included offense. There was no…
2Cases cited12 opinions
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- People v. BeneventoNew York Court of Appeals · 1998
- People v. RiveraNew York Court of Appeals · 1988
- People v. LoveNew York Court of Appeals · 1982
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