Legal Opinion
People v. Ortega
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided February 9, 2016No. 152 3921/12PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Daniel P. Conviser, J.), rendered January 7, 2014, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of rape in the first and third degrees and sexual abuse in the first degree, and sentencing him, as a second violent felony offender, to an aggregate term of 11 years, unanimously affirmed.
The court properly denied defendant’s application pursuant to Batson v Kentucky (476 US 79 [1986]). The prosecutor’s race-neutral reason for the exercise of the sole challenge at issue was that she had a strong sense of familiarity with the panelist from some other…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- Brady v. MarylandSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Batson v. KentuckySupreme Court of the United States · 1986
- Hernandez v. New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1991
- Snyder v. LouisianaSupreme Court of the United States · 2008
- People v. HernandezNew York Court of Appeals · 1990
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3Cited by1 opinion
- People v. OrtegaNew York Supreme Court · 2017