Legal Opinion

People v. Pickett

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

Decided January 13, 1998Published

1Opinion of the Court

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Joseph Cerbone, J.), rendered September 26, 1995, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second violent felony offender, to a term of 3V2 to 7 years, unanimously affirmed.

Since defendant failed to advance before the trial court his present arguments concerning the court’s disallowance of a defense peremptory challenge, such claims are unpreserved for appellate review and we decline to review them in the interest of justice. Were we to review them, we would find, from the…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Batson v. KentuckySupreme Court of the United States · 1986
  2. Hernandez v. New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1991
  3. People v. HernandezNew York Court of Appeals · 1990
  4. People v. WarwickAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1997

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