Legal Opinion

People v. Guerrero

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

Decided July 6, 1995PublishedCited by 4 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Richard Lee Price, J.), rendered July 23, 1992, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, and sentencing him to consecutive terms of lxh to 221h years and 41/2 to 131/2 years, respectively, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant’s claim of prosecutorial misconduct in summation is largely unpreserved. Were we to review the comments in question, including the characterization of defendant’s testimony as a "fairytale”, we would find that…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. People v. RamirezAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1994
  2. People v. WrightAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1995

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