Legal Opinion
People v. Torres
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided May 22, 1995PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Beldock, J.), rendered March 22, 1993, convicting him of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree (three counts) and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.
Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
Evidence of the defendant’s prior arrest for drug-related offenses was improperly admitted by the trial court under the identity and common-scheme-or-plan exceptions to the rule enunciated in People v Molineux (168 NY 264). The defendant’s…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- People v. CrimminsNew York Court of Appeals · 1975
- People v. . MolineuxNew York Court of Appeals · 1901
- People v. AllweissNew York Court of Appeals · 1979
- People v. OrtizAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1990
3Cited by7 opinions
- People v. McMichaelAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1995
- People v. RodriguezAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2000
- People v. MillerAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2009
- People v. NegronAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2001
- People v. RoeschAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2001
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