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CATOB v. STATE
The trial court revoked appellant's community supervision, adjudicated guilt, sentenced appellant to a term of ten years of confinement in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division, and ordered her to pay $86759.18 in restitution
Updated: 11/11/2011 08:14A
ORONA v. STATE
The jury convicted Daniel Subia Orona of capital murder (murder during the course of a robbery) and assessed his punishment at confinement in the Institutional Division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice for life without parole. We affirm.
Updated: 11/11/2011 08:14A
Ruling puts more trials in doubt
County Court judge Jim Montgomery sent shockwaves through the criminal justice system last month when he ruled evidence from search warrants inadmissible, because police had gained it through affidavits which they had only signed instead of formally
Updated: 11/11/2011 08:08A
PEOPLE v. HOLMES
Memorandum: On a prior appeal in People v Holmes (79 AD3d 1681), we affirmed the judgment convicting defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree (Penal Law § 265.03 [former (3)]).
Updated: 11/11/2011 08:08A
PEOPLE v. BROWN
Memorandum: On appeal from a judgment convicting him, following a nonjury trial, of criminal sexual act in the first degree (Penal Law § 130.50 [3]) and endangering the welfare of a child (§ 260.10 [1]), defendant contends that Supreme Court erred in
Updated: 11/11/2011 08:08A
PEOPLE v. CRUZ
Memorandum: Defendant appeals from a judgment convicting him upon his plea of guilty of attempted robbery in the first degree (Penal Law §§ 110.00, 160.15 [3]) and criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree (§ 220.39 [1]).
Updated: 11/11/2011 08:07A
PEOPLE v. MULL
Memorandum: Defendant appeals from a judgment convicting him upon a jury verdict of burglary in the second degree (Penal Law § 140.25 [2]). Contrary to defendant's contention, Supreme Court's Sandoval ruling did not constitute an abuse of discretion.
Updated: 11/11/2011 08:07A
PEOPLE v. GONZALEZ
Memorandum: Defendant appeals from a judgment convicting him following a bench trial of murder in the second degree (Penal Law § 125.25 [1]) and criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree (§ 265.03 [3]). County Court properly refused to
Updated: 11/11/2011 08:07A
PEOPLE v. BAKER
Memorandum: Defendant appeals from a judgment convicting her upon a jury verdict of robbery in the first degree (Penal Law § 160.15 [3]) and criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree (§ 265.02 [1]). Viewing the evidence in light of the
Updated: 11/11/2011 08:07A
IN THE MATTER OF DEMITRUS B.
adjudicating him to be a juvenile delinquent based upon his admission that he committed an act that, if committed by an adult, would constitute the crime of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree (Penal Law § 220.16 [1]).
Updated: 11/11/2011 08:07A
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