Legal Opinion

People v. Byrd

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

Decided June 19, 2001PublishedCited by 10 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Dorothy Cropper, J.), rendered June 25, 1998, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 6 to 12 years, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly exercised its discretion in imposing reasonable limitations on defendant’s questioning of prospective jurors during voir dire (People v Boulware, 29 NY2d 135, 140, cert denied 405 US 995). Defendant was not prevented from pursuing any substantively relevant lines of inquiry (compare,…

2Cases cited6 opinions

  1. People v. BornholdtNew York Court of Appeals · 1973
  2. People v. SavageNew York Court of Appeals · 1980
  3. People v. BoulwareNew York Court of Appeals · 1971
  4. People v. PorterAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1996
  5. People v. OrtizAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1998

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3Cited by10 opinions

  1. People v. MartinezAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2002
  2. People v. DizakAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2012
  3. People v. GreeneAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2013
  4. People v. SalleyAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2006
  5. People v. SantiagoAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2014

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