PEOPLE v. CARTER


73 A.D.2d 953 (1980)

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Robert Carter, Appellant

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Second Department.

January 21, 1980


Judgment affirmed.

The trial court's use at sentencing of an aphorism ascribed to a religious work in describing the allegedly predatory characteristics evinced by this defendant was not an establishment of religion by the State in violation of the Federal or State Constitutions (see, e.g., Committee for Public Educ. v Nyquist, 413 U.S. 756; Walz v Tax Comm., 397 U.S. 664; Engel v Vitale...

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