Legal Opinion
People v. Sumpter
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided April 25, 1994PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
—Appeal by the defendant, as limited by his brief, from a sentence of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Egitto, J.), imposed September 7, 1993, upon his conviction of manslaughter in the first degree (two counts), upon a jury verdict, the sentence being consecutive terms of 3 and 1/3 to 10 years imprisonment.
Ordered that the sentence is affirmed.
The defendant fired two gunshots, with each bullet killing a separate victim. Although the shots were fired in rapid succession, and were part of the same transaction, the court did not improvidently exercise its discretion in imposing consecutive…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- People v. SuitteAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1982
- People v. BrathwaiteNew York Court of Appeals · 1984
- People v. BrownNew York Court of Appeals · 1992
- People v. ScandellAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1988
3Cited by11 opinions
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- People v. SaultersAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1998
- People v. MillerAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1995
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