Legal Opinion

People v. Hernandez

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

Decided April 18, 1994PublishedCited by 7 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Rienzi, J.), rendered May 10, 1991, convicting him of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is modified, on the facts, by reducing the defendant’s conviction to criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree and vacating the sentence imposed; as so modified, the judgment is affirmed.

Upon the exercise of our factual review power, and in light of the jury’s verdict aquitting the defendant of the…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. People v. GarafoloAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1974
  2. People v. BernardAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1986
  3. People v. RiddickAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1979

3Cited by7 opinions

  1. People v. WashingtonAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1994
  2. People v. DuranAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1997
  3. People v. CooperAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1998
  4. People v. McFaddenAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2013
  5. People v. VegaAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1998

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