Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, 2002

People v. Walker

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York · Decided April 30, 2002

293 A.D.2d 411; 740 N.Y.S.2d 852; 2002 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 4321

Cases that cite this one

4 later published cases cite this decision.

People v. Simpson (Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York 2019)
People v. Pastor (Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York 2018)
People v. Lewis (Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York 2004)
People v. Ko (Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York 2003)

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Opinion of the Court

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (William Leibovitz, J.), rendered December 7, 2000, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of murder in the second degree, and sentencing him to a term of 25 years to life, unanimously affirmed.

In this circumstantial evidence case, the court properly *412exercised its discretion in admitting, on the issues of identity and motive, evidence of defendant’s prior stabbings of his ex-girlfriends under circumstances that were similar to those of the instant crime and that made it probable that defendant committed all three crimes (see, People v Beam, 57 NY2d 241; People v Willsey, 148 AD2d 764, lv denied 74 NY2d 749). Any prejudicial effect was minimized by the court’s repeated limiting instructions, which the jury is presumed to have followed. Concur—Williams, P.J., Tom, Mazzarelli, Andrias and Friedman, JJ.

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