Legal Opinion

People v. Almanzar

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

Decided November 17, 1994PublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

—Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Phylis Skloot Bamberger, J.) rendered January 14, 1991, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, and sentencing him to a term of 4 to 12 years, to run consecutively to a previously imposed sentence, unanimously affirmed.

Upon an independent review of the facts, weighing the relative force of the conflicting testimony and the competing inferences that may be drawn therefrom (People v Bleakley, 69 NY2d 490, 494-495), we find that the verdict was not against the weight of the evidence.

The instant…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. People v. BleakleyNew York Court of Appeals · 1987
  2. United States v. DixonSupreme Court of the United States · 1993
  3. People v. OkaforeNew York Court of Appeals · 1988

3Cited by1 opinion

  1. People v. JohnsonAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1999

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