Legal Opinion
People v. Kostaras
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided November 30, 1998PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Sampson, J.), rendered February 10, 1997, convicting him of criminal contempt in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.
Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
The trial court did not improvidently exercise its discretion in its Sandoval ruling permitting the prosecution to impeach the defendant with the underlying facts of a prior criminal contempt conviction. Questions concerning another crime are not automatically precluded simply because the crime to be inquired about is similar to the crime…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- People v. PavaoNew York Court of Appeals · 1983
- People v. MillerAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1993
- People v. CarrAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1996
3Cited by7 opinions
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- People v. GoldbergAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2005
- People v. ClarkeAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1999
- People v. RiveraAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2003
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