Legal Opinion

People v. Williams

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

Decided December 22, 2003PublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

*761Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Lott, J.), rendered December 17, 2001, convicting him of murder in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant claims that the trial court erred in failing to instruct the jury that a prosecution witness could be considered an accomplice as a matter of fact, whose testimony required corroboration. However, the subject witness was, at most, an “accessory after the fact,” whose testimony needs no corroboration under CPL 60.22 (People v Dygert, 229…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. People v. YoungAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1997
  2. People v. SaccoAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1993
  3. People v. DygertAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1996
  4. People v. BrownAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1995
  5. People v. MontgomeryAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1991

3Cited by1 opinion

  1. People v. MejiaAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2019

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