115 Cited authorities

  1. Bourjaily v. United States

    483 U.S. 171 (1987)   Cited 2,728 times   8 Legal Analyses
    Holding that trial judge may consider any evidence whatsoever, including the proffered hearsay statements, in determining whether statements are admissible under the co-conspirator exception to the hearsay rule
  2. Huddleston v. United States

    485 U.S. 681 (1988)   Cited 2,347 times   4 Legal Analyses
    Holding that under Rule 104(b), the "court simply examines all the evidence in the case and decides whether the jury could reasonably find the conditional fact . . . by a preponderance of the evidence"
  3. United States v. Powell

    469 U.S. 57 (1984)   Cited 2,042 times   4 Legal Analyses
    Holding that a defendant can be convicted of telephone facilitation despite an acquittal on the predicate felony
  4. Lego v. Twomey

    404 U.S. 477 (1972)   Cited 1,875 times   2 Legal Analyses
    Holding that "the prosecution must prove at least by a preponderance of the evidence that the confession was voluntary," but observing that "the States are free, pursuant to their own law, to adopt a higher standard"
  5. Johnson v. Zerbst

    304 U.S. 458 (1938)   Cited 8,796 times   19 Legal Analyses
    Holding that a waiver of constitutional rights must be knowing and intelligent
  6. People v. Hawkins

    2008 N.Y. Slip Op. 9254 (N.Y. 2008)   Cited 1,876 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
  7. People v. Gray

    86 N.Y.2d 10 (N.Y. 1995)   Cited 3,228 times   5 Legal Analyses
    Holding that the issue of evidentiary sufficiency must be preserved for appellate review
  8. Texas v. Cobb

    532 U.S. 162 (2001)   Cited 580 times   2 Legal Analyses
    Holding that a defendant's statements regarding uncharged offenses, without his attorney present, were admissible notwithstanding his right to counsel on other charged offenses
  9. People v. Crimmins

    36 N.Y.2d 230 (N.Y. 1975)   Cited 5,684 times   5 Legal Analyses
    Holding that an error is prejudicial "if an appellate court concludes that there is a significant probability, rather than only a rational possibility, in the particular case that the jury would have acquitted the defendant had it not been for the error or errors which occurred"
  10. People v. Alvino

    71 N.Y.2d 233 (N.Y. 1987)   Cited 1,068 times   2 Legal Analyses
    Holding that evidence of similar uncharged crimes is excluded for policy reasons because it may induce the jury to base a finding of guilt on collateral matters