Legal Opinion
People v. Zorilla
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided January 31, 1995PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Franklin Weissberg, J.), rendered October 13, 1992, convicting defendant after jury trial, of murder in the second degree and kidnapping in the first degree, and sentencing him to concurrent terms of 25 years to life, unanimously affirmed.
Evidence of defendant’s drug selling operation was introduced into evidence to explain defendant’s motive for directing his accomplices to kill the victim, whom defendant believed to have been selling drugs for another dealer. This *583evidence also explained why the victim’s body was found in a car connected to…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- People v. AlvinoNew York Court of Appeals · 1987
- People v. LoveNew York Court of Appeals · 1982
- People v. CastroNew York Court of Appeals · 1985
- People v. CastroAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1984
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- People v. AliceaAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2006
- People v. DodsonAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1997
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