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The People, Respondent,v.Franklin McPherson, Appellant.

Brief

57 Cited authorities

  1. Strickland v. Washington

    466 U.S. 668 (1984)   Cited 158,894 times   176 Legal Analyses
    Holding an "error by counsel" doesn't "warrant setting aside the judgment of a criminal proceeding" where in the context of the whole proceeding the identified error "had no effect on the judgment"

  2. Jackson v. Virginia

    443 U.S. 307 (1979)   Cited 77,659 times   16 Legal Analyses
    Holding that courts conducting review of the sufficiency of the evidence to support a criminal conviction should view the "evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution"

  3. Kyles v. Whitley

    514 U.S. 419 (1995)   Cited 7,265 times   36 Legal Analyses
    Holding the State's disclosure obligation turns on the cumulative effect of all suppressed evidence favorable to the defense

  4. State v. Danielson

    2007 N.Y. Slip Op. 9814 (N.Y. 2007)   Cited 9,468 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Holding a "legally sufficient verdict can be against the weight of the evidence"

  5. Mapp v. Ohio

    367 U.S. 643 (1961)   Cited 8,299 times   22 Legal Analyses
    Holding that the exclusionary rule under the Fourth Amendment applies to the States, and overruling the contrary rule of Wolf v. Colorado , 338 U.S. 25, 69 S.Ct. 1359, 93 L.Ed. 1782, after considering and rejecting "the current validity of the factual grounds upon which Wolf was based"

  6. People v. Stultz

    2 N.Y.3d 277 (N.Y. 2004)   Cited 3,233 times   2 Legal Analyses
    Holding "a defendant's showing of prejudice [to be] a significant but not indispensable element in assessing meaningful representation," focusing instead on "the fairness of the proceedings as a whole"

  7. People v. Benevento

    91 N.Y.2d 708 (N.Y. 1998)   Cited 4,215 times   2 Legal Analyses
    In People v Benevento, 91 NY2d 708, 713-14 (1998), the New York Court of Appeals held that "meaningful representation" included a prejudice component which focuses on the "fairness of the process as a whole rather than [any] particular impact on the outcome of the case."

  8. People v. Hawkins

    2008 N.Y. Slip Op. 9254 (N.Y. 2008)   Cited 1,877 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Holding that to preserve for appellate review a challenge to the legal sufficiency of evidence to support a conviction, a defendant must move for a trial order of dismissal, and the argument must be "specifically directed" at the error being argued

  9. People v. Gray

    86 N.Y.2d 10 (N.Y. 1995)   Cited 3,232 times   5 Legal Analyses
    Holding that the issue of evidentiary sufficiency must be preserved for appellate review

  10. People v. Baldi

    54 N.Y.2d 137 (N.Y. 1981)   Cited 5,978 times   6 Legal Analyses
    In Baldi, the New York State Court of Appeals expressly applied the right to effective assistance of counsel guaranteed by the federal Constitution.