People v. Rojas
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Tom, J.
Defendant appeals from a conviction of murder and related charges arising out of a shooting in the Greenwich Village area in lower Manhattan on the grounds of ineffective assistance of counsel and improper police-arranged identification procedures. This appeal focuses on, inter alia, certain exculpatory evidence, overlooked by counsel, which, had it been investigated and provided to the jury, may well have proved defendant’s innocence.
On the morning of November 18, 1990, at shortly before 2:07 a.m., a group of youths, most of whom were college students, consisting…
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