Legal Opinion
People v. Garcia
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided December 27, 2007PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Steven Lloyd Barrett, *462J.), entered November 2, 2006, which granted defendants’ CPL 440.10 motions to vacate judgments, rendered November 15, 2002, convicting defendants, after a jury trial, of kidnapping in the second degree and endangering the welfare of a child, and imposing sentence, unanimously affirmed.
The court correctly found that the People violated their obligation to turn over material favorable to the defense (see Brady v Maryland, 373 US 83 [1963]) and that defendants were thereby prejudiced. The court properly found that the prosecution…
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