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People v. Kennedy

New York Court of Appeals

Decided June 5, 1979PublishedCited by 360 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION OF THE COURT

Gabrielli, J.

In the early evening hours of April 3, 1974, the police were summoned to an alleyway located behind a Key Foods Supermarket near the intersection of Sutphin Boulevard and 119th Avenue in the Borough of Queens. There they found the lifeless body of Bernard Jackson, who had been fatally shot in the right temple with a .25 caliber pistol belonging to Lucia Kennedy, the defendant in this prosecution for Jackson’s murder. The testimony at Kennedy’s trial showed that Kennedy was a member of the Savage Skulls, a neighborhood youth gang, while Jackson had belonged to…

2Cases cited8 opinions

  1. United States v. WadeSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
  2. People v. SandovalNew York Court of Appeals · 1974
  3. People v. BenzingerNew York Court of Appeals · 1974
  4. People v. CleagueNew York Court of Appeals · 1968
  5. People v. BorreroNew York Court of Appeals · 1970

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3Cited by360 opinions

  1. People v. MaliziaNew York Court of Appeals · 1984
  2. People v. D'AlessandroAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1992
  3. People v. WalkerNew York Court of Appeals · 1994
  4. People v. BarnesNew York Court of Appeals · 1980
  5. People v. CableNew York Court of Appeals · 1984

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