Legal Opinion

People v. Reinoso

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

Decided January 21, 1999PublishedCited by 3 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

—Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Lawrence Tonetti, J.), rendered May 1, 1995, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of two *485counts of sodomy in the first degree, and sentencing him to concurrent terms of 4 to 12 years, unanimously affirmed.

A review of the reasonable doubt charge, as a whole, demonstrates that it contained no burden-shifting language (see, People v Thomas, 50 NY2d 467) and did not impose an affirmative obligation on the jury to articulate a basis for such doubt (see, People v Antommarchi, 80 NY2d 247, 251-252). We find no error in the court’s refusal to charge, as…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. People v. AntommarchiNew York Court of Appeals · 1992
  2. People v. ThomasNew York Court of Appeals · 1980
  3. People v. . RadcliffeNew York Court of Appeals · 1921
  4. People v. NazarioNew York Supreme Court · 1990

3Cited by3 opinions

  1. People v. ShiversAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2003
  2. People v. McBrideAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2022
  3. Reynoso v. HollinsCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2003

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