Legal Opinion

People v. Wright

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

Decided January 5, 1999Published

1Opinion of the Court

—Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Gerald Sheindlin, J.), rendered May 29, 1996, convicting defendants after a jury trial, of burglary in the third degree, and sentencing defendant Shawn Wright, as a second felony offender, to a term of 3V2 to 7 years, and defendant Shahid Andrews to a term of IV2 to 4V2 years, unanimously affirmed.

The suppression motion was properly denied. When the police responded to a burglary in progress at 5:30 a.m., and saw defendants, the only persons present, behaving in a furtive manner, without any innocuous explanation, in the alleyway adjacent to the crime…

2Cases cited6 opinions

  1. People v. MartinezNew York Court of Appeals · 1992
  2. People v. AllenNew York Court of Appeals · 1989
  3. People v. ConcepcionAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1996
  4. People v. FabianAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1995
  5. People v. BurksAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1995

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