New York Court of Appeals, 1986

People v. Morris

New York Court of Appeals · Decided September 16, 1986

68 N.Y.2d 799; 498 N.E.2d 423; 506 N.Y.S.2d 859; 1986 N.Y. LEXIS 20110

Cases that cite this one

5 later published cases cite this decision.

Commonwealth v. Fowlin (Pa. 1998)
People v. Jones (New York Supreme Court 2004)
People v. Jones (New York Supreme Court, Bronx County 2004)
People v. Sierra (Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York 1996)
People v. Washington (N.Y. 1988)

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Opinion of the Court

OPINION OF THE COURT

Appeal dismissed upon the ground that the reversal by the *800Appellate Division was not "on the law alone or upon the law and such facts which, but for the determination of law, would not have led to reversal” (CPL 450.90 [2] [a]). The conviction of criminal possession of a weapon was reversed "on the law and as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice”. Reversal of the conviction of assault and dismissal of that count of the indictment, while termed a reversal "on the law”, was necessarily based on a determination of repugnancy of the verdict, an issue not preserved for review as a question of law (CPL 470.05 [2]).

Concur: Chief Judge Wachtler and Judges Meyer, Simons, Kaye, Alexander and Titone. Taking no part: Judge Hancock, Jr.

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