58 Cited authorities

  1. Miranda v. Arizona

    384 U.S. 436 (1966)   Cited 60,240 times   64 Legal Analyses
    Holding that statements obtained by custodial interrogation of a criminal defendant without warning of constitutional rights are inadmissible under the Fifth Amendment
  2. State v. Danielson

    2007 N.Y. Slip Op. 9814 (N.Y. 2007)   Cited 9,448 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Holding a "legally sufficient verdict can be against the weight of the evidence"
  3. Gideon v. Wainwright

    372 U.S. 335 (1963)   Cited 8,388 times   22 Legal Analyses
    Holding that the Sixth Amendment requires counsel in all state felony prosecutions
  4. People v. Romero

    2006 N.Y. Slip Op. 8640 (N.Y. 2006)   Cited 4,924 times

    No. 151. Argued October 18, 2006. Decided November 21, 2006. APPEAL, by permission of an Associate Judge of the Court of Appeals, from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the First Judicial Department, entered October 11, 2005. The Appellate Division affirmed a judgment of the Supreme Court, New York County (Leslie Crocker Snyder, J.), which had convicted defendant, upon a jury verdict, of two counts of murder in the second degree. People v. Romero, 22 AD3d 287, affirmed. Center

  5. People v. Bleakley

    69 N.Y.2d 490 (N.Y. 1987)   Cited 11,292 times   3 Legal Analyses
    Holding that the Appellate Division committed reversible error when it "avoid[ed] its exclusive statutory authority to review the weight of the evidence in criminal cases"
  6. People v. Hawkins

    2008 N.Y. Slip Op. 9254 (N.Y. 2008)   Cited 1,875 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 3,227 times   5 Legal Analyses
    Holding that the issue of evidentiary sufficiency must be preserved for appellate review
  8. People v. Baldi

    54 N.Y.2d 137 (N.Y. 1981)   Cited 5,974 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.
  9. People v. Crimmins

    36 N.Y.2d 230 (N.Y. 1975)   Cited 5,683 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. De Bour

    40 N.Y.2d 210 (N.Y. 1976)   Cited 2,267 times   6 Legal Analyses
    In People v. LaPene, 352 N.E.2d 562 (N.Y. 1976), the New York Court of Appeals laid out a sliding scale of justifiable police intrusion, short of probable cause to arrest, which specified three distinct levels of intrusion correlating the allowable intensity of police conduct to the nature and weight of the facts precipitating the intrusion.