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The People, Respondent,v.Pernell A. Flanders, Appellant.

Brief

29 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. 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.

  3. People v. Rivera

    71 N.Y.2d 705 (N.Y. 1988)   Cited 1,832 times
    Holding petitioner who failed to show "the absence of strategic or other legitimate explanations" for counsels' alleged shortcoming did not have viable claim to constitutionally ineffective counsel

  4. People v. Keindl

    68 N.Y.2d 410 (N.Y. 1986)   Cited 411 times   3 Legal Analyses
    Holding that multiplicity of acts encompassed in single counts made it virtually impossible to determine the particular act of sodomy or sexual abuse as to which the jury reached a unanimous verdict

  5. People v. Julian

    41 N.Y.2d 340 (N.Y. 1977)   Cited 369 times
    In People v Julian (41 N.Y.2d 340 [involving various drugs]), Amaro v City of New York (40 N.Y.2d 30 [involving a blood sample]) and People v Connelly (35 N.Y.2d 171 [involving cocaine]), the problem was one of establishing that the substance which had been delivered for analysis (i.e., the "green vegetable matter" or "white powder" in People v Julian [supra] and People v Connelly [supra]; and the blood in Amaro v City of New York [supra]) was in fact a sample of the substance seized or purchased, or the blood taken.

  6. People v. Shack

    86 N.Y.2d 529 (N.Y. 1995)   Cited 213 times
    Upholding aggravated harassment statute that criminalizes only those telephone calls made "with no purpose of legitimate communication"

  7. People v. Davis

    72 N.Y.2d 32 (N.Y. 1988)   Cited 121 times
    Shooting pistol into the air does not constitute reckless endangerment in the first degree

  8. People v. Charles

    61 N.Y.2d 321 (N.Y. 1984)   Cited 133 times
    In Charles, a court clerk was approached by an undercover agent and asked to fix several summonses in exchange for $100.00.

  9. People v. Spann

    56 N.Y.2d 469 (N.Y. 1982)   Cited 117 times
    In Spann, the defendant himself voluntarily took the stand and admitted that he had stolen property on the date and from the person specified in the indictment, but that the property taken was different from that alleged in the indictment.

  10. People v. Wells

    7 N.Y.3d 51 (N.Y. 2006)   Cited 50 times

    No. 59. Argued March 29, 2006. Decided May 11, 2006. APPEAL, by permission of the Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals, from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the First Judicial Department, entered January 4, 2005. The Appellate Division affirmed a judgment of the Supreme Court, New York County (Harold B. Beeler, J., at suppression hearing; Charles J. Tejada, J., at jury trial and sentence), which had convicted defendant, upon a jury verdict, of murder in the first degree