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The People, Respondent,v.Nicholas Brooks, Appellant.

Brief

42 Cited authorities

  1. Nonnon v. City of New York

    2007 N.Y. Slip Op. 5578 (N.Y. 2007)   Cited 932 times
    Noting that affidavits "are generally intended to remedy pleading defects"

  2. Parker v. Mobil Oil Corp.

    7 N.Y.3d 434 (N.Y. 2006)   Cited 377 times   27 Legal Analyses
    Finding that "standards promulgated by regulatory agencies as protective measures are inadequate to demonstrate legal causation"

  3. People v. Wesley

    83 N.Y.2d 417 (N.Y. 1994)   Cited 443 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Concluding that "[d]efendant's challenges to the population studies relied on by Lifecodes to estimate the probability of a coincidental match go not to admissibility, but to the weight of the evidence, which should be left to the trier of fact."

  4. Matter of Brown v. Grosso

    285 A.D.2d 642 (N.Y. App. Div. 2001)   Cited 312 times   1 Legal Analyses

    Submitted June 1, 2001. July 30, 2001. Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 in the nature of prohibition to prohibit the enforcement of two orders of the Supreme Court, Queens County, dated September 21, 2000, and November 14, 2000, respectively, which, inter alia, denied a petition of the City of New York to quash subpoenas duces tecum, on the ground that the respondent Joseph Grosso, a Justice of the Supreme Court, Queens County, lacked the authority to issue the orders. Richard A. Brown, District

  5. People v. Buford

    69 N.Y.2d 290 (N.Y. 1987)   Cited 426 times
    Holding that the trial court's reasons for its determination following a Buford inquiry should be placed on the record

  6. Frye v. United States

    293 F. 1013 (D.C. Cir. 1923)   Cited 4,497 times   50 Legal Analyses
    Holding that expert testimony must be based on scientific methods that are sufficiently established and accepted

  7. People v. Arnold

    96 N.Y.2d 358 (N.Y. 2001)   Cited 270 times   7 Legal Analyses
    Holding a juror's participation in a group answer to questions posed to the entire venire to be insufficient to rehabilitate her

  8. People v. Taylor

    75 N.Y.2d 277 (N.Y. 1990)   Cited 289 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Holding that trial court did not commit error by admitting testimony on "rape trauma syndrome" because "the relevant scientific community has generally accepted that rape is a highly traumatic event that will in many women trigger the onset of certain identifiable symptoms," allowing it to be admitted under the Frye standard

  9. People v. Brensic

    70 N.Y.2d 9 (N.Y. 1987)   Cited 177 times
    In Brensic, the defendants claimed that the admission of such evidence as declarations against penal interest violated New York evidentiary law and denied them their rights of confrontation and due process under the federal and state Constitutions.

  10. Marsh v. Smyth

    12 A.D.3d 307 (N.Y. App. Div. 2004)   Cited 97 times
    In Marsh (supra) the court reasoned that "in circumstances such as these, the question of whether the challenged testimony is admissible should not involve weighing the number of experts that concur in the expert's opinion against the number that do not, or independently deciding on the soundness of the competing experts' views.