People v. Anderson
This text of 173 A.D.2d 174 (People v. Anderson) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
Opinion
Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Joan Sudolnick, J.) rendered on July 6, 1988, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminally negligent homicide, and sentencing him to an indeterminate term of imprisonment of from l-ió to 4 years, unanimously affirmed.
[175]*175Numerous witnesses observed defendant hitting or arguing with the decedent, who after being taken into the hospital, lapsed into a coma and died. At trial, during summation, the defense made statements implying that the People’s witnesses were not telling the truth. The prosecutor’s comments at summation constituted fair response. (People v Devonish, 159 AD2d 320, 321, lv denied 76 NY2d 733.) Concur—Milonas, J. P., Rosenberger, Kassal and Rubin, JJ.
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173 A.D.2d 174, 570 N.Y.S.2d 922, 1991 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 5555, Counsel Stack Legal Research, https://law.counselstack.com/opinion/people-v-anderson-nyappdiv-1991.