Legal Opinion
People v. Porter
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided September 9, 1985PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Appeal by defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Beldock, J.), rendered August 27, 1981, as amended on November 9, 1983, convicting him of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the second degree, criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, criminal possession of a hypodermic instrument, and criminally using drug paraphernalia in the second degree, upon a jury verdict after a trial in absentia, and imposing sentence.
Judgment, as amended, affirmed.
Defendant, who was tried jointly with his cohort Nehemiah Ruffin, failed to return to the…
2Cases cited5 opinions
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- People v. SuvillAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1985
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