Legal Opinion

People v. Sinclair

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

Decided August 5, 2015No. 2013-01611Published

1Opinion of the Court

-Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Orange County (DeRosa, J.), rendered February 4, 2013, convicting him of murder in the second degree, criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, and reckless endangerment in the first degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The jury’s determination that the defendant failed to prove by a preponderance of the evidence that he was acting under extreme emotional disturbance when he shot and killed the victim, who moments earlier had been in a car with the defendant’s…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. People v. SuitteAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1982
  2. People v. SteenAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2013
  3. People v. ReynartAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2010
  4. People v. LudwigsenAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2008
  5. People v. SepeAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2013

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