Legal Opinion
People v. Borgella
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided November 23, 2016No. 2014-04289PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Marrus, J.), rendered April 3, 2014, convicting him of murder in the second degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.
Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
The Supreme Court erred, in its Sandoval ruling (see People v Sandoval, 34 NY2d 371 [1974]), in permitting the People to elicit testimony from the defendant regarding a comment posted on his Facebook page, since the comment was not probative of the defendant’s credibility (see People v Anderson, 130…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- People v. SandovalNew York Court of Appeals · 1974
- People v. DuffyNew York Court of Appeals · 1975
- People v. KussNew York Court of Appeals · 1973
- People v. DugginsNew York Court of Appeals · 2004
- People v. SeabrooksAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2011
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3Cited by2 opinions
- People v. MohamedAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2016
- People v. TrocheAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2018