Legal Opinion
People ex rel. Leventhal v. Warden of Rikers Island
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided June 19, 1984PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Asch, J.
The court is faced with two separate but related appeals arising out of a crime committed on February 11,1983. On that date, the relator respondent (defendant hereafter), a 22 year old, accosted an 88-year-old man in a men’s room in the Port Authority bus terminal in Manhattan, punched him in the face, grabbed and took his eyeglasses. The defendant was arrested immediately. A felony complaint was sworn out charging him with robbery in the second degree. The next day defendant was arraigned before Judge Shirley Levittan on the felony complaint, in the Criminal…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- United States v. DiFrancescoSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
- Ex Parte LangeSupreme Court of the United States · 1874
- Campbell v. PesceNew York Court of Appeals · 1983
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