Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, 2002

People v. Edwards

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York · Decided June 27, 2002

295 A.D.2d 270; 743 N.Y.S.2d 872; 2002 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 6869

Cases that cite this one

20 later published cases cite this decision.

People v. Pagan (Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York 2011)
Gomez v. Griffin (District Court, E.D. New York 2021)
People v. Jones (Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York 2020)
Cummins v. Lee (District Court, E.D. New York 2019)
People v. Wright (Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York 2018)
People v. Moore (Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York 2018)
People v. Franzese (Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York 2017)
People v. Keitt (Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York 2016)
People v. Ford (Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York 2015)
People v. Murray (Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York 2014)
People v. Murray (Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York 2014)
People v. Guevara (Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York 2012)
People v. Guevara (Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York 2012)
People v. Scott (Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York 2010)
People v. Tatro (Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York 2008)
People v. Flores (Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York 2007)
People v. Cherry (Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York 2007)
People v. Wilson (Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York 2005)
People v. Cain (Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York 2005)
People v. Avila (Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York 2003)

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Opinion of the Court

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Dorothy Cropper, J.), rendered June 9, 1999, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of assault in the first degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second violent felony offender, to concurrent terms of 12 years and seven years, respectively, unanimously affirmed.

*271The court properly exercised its discretion in admitting evidence of defendant’s gang membership. The expert’s testimony that the gang to which defendant belonged engaged in random ritual slashings by which members earned advancement within the gang’s hierarchy, coupled with the lack of any other discernible motive for defendant’s attack on the victim, provided sufficient connection between defendant’s gang membership and the crime (see, People v Tai, 224 AD2d 328, lv denied 88 NY2d 942). The evidence was highly relevant to explain why defendant, for no apparent reason, would suddenly attack a fellow occupant of a holding cell who had never seen defendant before. The court’s thorough instructions minimized any prejudicial effect. Concur—Williams, P.J., Nardelli, Saxe, Sullivan and Friedman, JJ.

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