Legal Opinion

People v. West

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

Decided November 26, 1996PublishedCited by 5 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Martin Rettinger, J.), rendered June 15, 1993, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of robbery in the second degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 6 to 12 years, unanimously affirmed.

The verdict was based on legally sufficient evidence and was not against the weight of the evidence. Defendant’s claim that the evidence was insufficient to sustain his conviction of robbery in the second degree given his acquittal of robbery in the first degree is merely a " ' "masked repugnancy argument” that defendant failed to…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. People v. SmithAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1993

3Cited by5 opinions

  1. People v. LandaAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2006
  2. People v. AndolinaAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2005
  3. People v. DemchenkoAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1999
  4. People v. AntomarchiAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1999
  5. People v. CannonAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2003

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