Legal Opinion
People v. Pena
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided October 28, 1999PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (John Stackhouse, J.), rendered October 14, 1998, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the fifth degree, and sentencing him to a term of lVs to 4 years, unanimously modified, as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, to the extent of reducing the sentence to a term of 6 months imprisonment concurrent with 5 years probation and otherwise affirmed. The matter is remitted to Supreme Court, New York County, for further proceedings pursuant to CPL 460.50 (5).
The court properly denied…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Batson v. KentuckySupreme Court of the United States · 1986
- Hernandez v. New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1991
- People v. HernandezNew York Court of Appeals · 1990
- People v. BarnesAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1999
- People v. ButlerAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1998
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