Legal Opinion
People v. Hernandez
New York Court of Appeals
Decided February 22, 1990PublishedCited by 396 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Bellacosa, J.
Defendant’s essential argument attacks the judgment of conviction as having been secured in violation of his equal *353protection rights because, as he asserts, the prosecution discriminatorily exercised its peremptory challenges to exclude two Latino persons from the jury that ultimately found him guilty of two counts each of attempted murder and criminal possession of a weapon (see, Batson v Kentucky, 476 US 79). Defendant, also a Latino, satisfied the Batson (476 US 79, supra) threshold predicate of discriminatory use of peremptory challenges by the…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Batson v. KentuckySupreme Court of the United States · 1986
- Griffith v. KentuckySupreme Court of the United States · 1987
- Swain v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1965
- People v. ScottNew York Court of Appeals · 1987
- Esler v. WaltersNew York Court of Appeals · 1982
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3Cited by396 opinions
- Hernandez v. New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1991
- People v. AllenNew York Court of Appeals · 1995
- People v. KernNew York Court of Appeals · 1990
- People v. PayneNew York Court of Appeals · 1996
- People v. HeckerNew York Court of Appeals · 2010
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