Legal Opinion
The People v. Yusuf Sparks
New York Court of Appeals
Decided March 30, 2017No. 32PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Memorandum.
The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed.
Defendant was charged with one count of assault in the first degree (Penal Law § 120.10 [1]) following a dispute at a Manhattan bodega. Defendant, then age 19, and the victim, a 50-year-old man with a long history of substance abuse and criminal activity, had a verbal exchange inside the bodega after the victim provoked defendant. Based on that affront, defendant twice threatened to “murder” the victim, who was in an inebriated, stumbling state, before eventually punching him inside that store. In…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- People v. CrimminsNew York Court of Appeals · 1975
- People v. WattsNew York Court of Appeals · 1982
- People v. FardanNew York Court of Appeals · 1993
- People v. PettyNew York Court of Appeals · 2006
- People v. UmaliNew York Court of Appeals · 2008
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3Cited by19 opinions
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- People v. SadlerAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2017
- People v. SuchiteAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2021
- People v. BrownAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2018
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