Court of Appeals of New York

Conviction of first and second degree murder and attempted second degree murder, among other crimes, and sentence of 50 years to life is affirmed as a single charge of attempted intentional murder is not duplicitous when the evidence adduced at trial demonstrates that the defendant fired a gun in the direction of more than one individual but does not definitively establish the identity of the intended victim.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/11/2006
• Published 05/11/2006

Judges

Court

• Court of Appeals of New York

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
•  Robert Kruger, New York City, for appellant in first above-entitled action., Eliot Spitzer, Attorney-General, Albany (Barbara G. Billet,  Peter H. Schiff, Victor Paladino and Kathleen M. Treasure of counsel), for New York State Department of Health, for amicus curiae in the first above-entitled action., Robert, Lerner & Robert, Rockville Centre (Charles Robert and Joan Lensky Robert of counsel), for appellant in second above-entitled proceeding.,  Burchetta, Brofman & Hanley, Pomona (Sonia Crannage, of counsel), for NYSARC, Inc., for amicus curiae in second above-entitled proceeding.


• For Appellees:
  
• Alan D. Scheinkman, County Attorney of Westchester County, White Plains (Stacey Dolgin-Kmetz and Lea L. Bahl of counsel), for nonparty respondent in first above-entitled action., Robert J. Cimino, County Attorney of Suffolk County, Hauppauge (Paul G. Costello of counsel), for respondent in second above-entitled proceeding.