Legal Opinion
People v. Bens
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided March 1, 2004PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Cooperaran, J.), rendered July 12, 2001, convicting him of attempted criminal possession of a controlled substance in the first degree and coercion in the first degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.
Ordered that the judgment is modified, on the law, by vacating the conviction of coercion in the first degree, vacating the sentence imposed thereon, and dismissing that count of the indictment; as so modified, the judgment is affirmed.
The evidence, viewed in the light most favorable to the prosecution (see…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- People v. ContesNew York Court of Appeals · 1983
- People v. MahboubianNew York Court of Appeals · 1989
- People v. . SobieskodaNew York Court of Appeals · 1923
- People v. WagerAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1993
- People v. AcostaAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1993
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3Cited by5 opinions
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