Legal Opinion
People v. Schneider
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided March 10, 1964PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtBreitel, J.
Defendant, an insurance broker, has been convicted, after a jury trial, of the crime of soliciting legal business for a lawyer in violation of section 270-a of the Penal Law. Two lawyers who were tried with defendant, and for whom he allegedly solicited, were acquitted by the jury.
Defendant argues that the evidence is insufficient to establish the crime and that the verdict of the jury in finding him guilty and in acquitting the lawyers was inconsistent. The second argument is based on the view that in order for the crime of solicitation to be made out there must have been some prior…
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