Legal Opinion

People v. Williams

New York Court of Appeals

Decided April 5, 1979PublishedCited by 96 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

*1071OPINION OF THE COURT

Memorandum.

The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed.

Though the prosecutor’s summation comment suggesting that the defendant may have engaged in other criminal conduct was prejudicial in nature, the Trial Judge’s lucid curative instructions to the jury, .following which neither any further objection nor any request for a mistrial was made, must be deemed to have corrected the error to the defendant’s satisfaction.

The other prosecutorial summation statements to which defendant has drawn our attention went without objection at all. Consequently, they are not…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. People v. CrimminsNew York Court of Appeals · 1975
  2. People v. SavvidesNew York Court of Appeals · 1956
  3. People v. UtleyNew York Court of Appeals · 1978

3Cited by96 opinions

  1. People v. DawsonNew York Court of Appeals · 1980
  2. People v. HeideNew York Court of Appeals · 1994
  3. People v. JonesNew York Court of Appeals · 1979
  4. People v. JonesNew York Court of Appeals · 1981
  5. People v. BookerAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2008

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