Legal Opinion
People v. Vargas
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided December 8, 1986PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
— Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Bourgeois, J.), rendered March 30, 1982, convicting him of murder in the second degree and attempted murder in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.
Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
We have reviewed the record and conclude that the court properly admitted into evidence a knife which was found at the scene the day following the crime and which was identified by a witness as the knife with which he and the deceased had been stabbed by the defendant. These circumstances provided a…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- People v. MirendaNew York Court of Appeals · 1969
- People v. CunninghamAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1986
- People v. McNairAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1969
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