PEOPLE v. MATTIACE


77 N.Y.2d 269 (1990)

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Louis J. Mattiace, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided December 27, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul J. Zoeller and Thomas P. Lynch for appellant.

Robert Abrams, Attorney-General (Clive I. Morrick, O. Peter Sherwood and James A. Sevinsky of counsel), for respondent.

Chief Judge WACHTLER and Judges SIMONS and HANCOCK, JR., concur with Judge BELLACOSA; Judge TITONE dissents and votes to reverse in a separate opinion in which Judges KAYE and ALEXANDER concur.


BELLACOSA, J.

Defendant was convicted of one count of criminal possession of a forged instrument in the second degree stemming from a multicount, multiparty, jury trial prosecution for commercial hazardous waste disposal crimes. The judgment was affirmed by the Appellate Division and a Judge of this Court granted leave to appeal. Defendant raises three issues: insufficiency of the evidence; trial error in the...

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