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The People, Respondent,v.Chadon Morris, Appellant.

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52 Cited authorities

  1. Old Chief v. United States

    519 U.S. 172 (1997)   Cited 3,026 times   7 Legal Analyses
    Holding that the district court had abused its discretion in admitting the record of conviction when the defendant in that case offered to stipulate to a prior felony conviction

  2. People v. Crimmins

    36 N.Y.2d 230 (N.Y. 1975)   Cited 5,682 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"

  3. People v. Alvino

    71 N.Y.2d 233 (N.Y. 1987)   Cited 1,067 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

  4. People v. Dorm

    2009 N.Y. Slip Op. 1065 (N.Y. 2009)   Cited 266 times
    Finding no error in trial court's admission of evidence of previous arguments and conflicts between the victim and the defendant because evidence, among other things, “provided necessary background information on the nature of the relationship and placed the charged conduct in context”

  5. People v. Cass

    2012 N.Y. Slip Op. 1144 (N.Y. 2012)   Cited 178 times

    2012-02-16 The PEOPLE of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Mickey CASS, Appellant. Appellate Advocates, New York City (Warren S. Landau and Lynn WL. Fahey of counsel), for appellant. Charles J. Hynes, District Attorney, Brooklyn (Joyce Slevin, Leonard Joblove and Victor Barall of counsel), for respondent. JONES Appellate Advocates, New York City (Warren S. Landau and Lynn WL. Fahey of counsel), for appellant. Charles J. Hynes, District Attorney, Brooklyn (Joyce Slevin, Leonard Joblove and Victor

  6. People v. Allweiss

    48 N.Y.2d 40 (N.Y. 1979)   Cited 443 times   1 Legal Analyses
    In People v. Allweiss, 396 N.E.2d 735 (N.Y. 1979), the defendant appealed his conviction for second degree murder, arguing, among other things, that results of microscopic hair analysis are no more reliable than lie detector evidence and should be inadmissible.

  7. People v. Scarola

    71 N.Y.2d 769 (N.Y. 1988)   Cited 302 times
    Holding that "the fact that an exhibition of a physical characteristic is not testimonial in nature does not necessarily require its reception as evidence at trial [t]he test of whether voice exemplar evidence should be admitted as real or demonstrative evidence is not whether the proposed exemplar would be communicative, but whether it is relevant and reliable"

  8. People v. Arafet

    2009 N.Y. Slip Op. 7482 (N.Y. 2009)   Cited 153 times

    No. 142. Argued September 17, 2009. Decided October 22, 2009. APPEAL, by permission of a Justice of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the Third Judicial Department, from an order of that Court, entered August 21, 2008. The Appellate Division affirmed a judgment of the Schenectady County Court (Polly A. Hoye, J.), which had convicted defendant, upon a jury verdict, of grand larceny in the first degree and criminal possession of stolen property in the first degree. People v Arafet, 54

  9. People v. Till

    87 N.Y.2d 835 (N.Y. 1995)   Cited 220 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Holding that testimony of prior bad acts may be admitted into evidence, after a finding by the court that the probative value outweighs any undue prejudice caused by its admission, when "needed as background material" or to "complete the narrative of the episode" that established a motive for and provided the jury with a thorough appreciation for the interwoven events leading up to the defendant's criminal conduct

  10. People v. Baker

    2010 N.Y. Slip Op. 2437 (N.Y. 2010)   Cited 145 times
    Finding that precedents applying Sixth Amendment principles “have no bearing” on exclusion of potential witness