People v. Simmons
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Patricia M. Núñez, J.), rendered March 12, 2015, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of burglary in the second degree and petit larceny, and sentencing him to an aggregate term of five years, unanimously affirmed.
The court properly denied defendant’s request for a voluntariness charge regarding recorded phone calls he made while incarcerated pending trial. Defendant introduced no evidence that created a factual dispute for the jury to resolve regarding the voluntariness of these calls (see People v Cefaro, 23 NY2d 283, 286 [1968]). CPL 60.45 is…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- People v. LinaresNew York Court of Appeals · 2004
- People v. CefaroNew York Court of Appeals · 1968
- The People v. Marcellus JohnsonNew York Court of Appeals · 2016
- People v. AgolaAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2016
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