PEOPLE v. PEREZ


259 A.D.2d 274 (1999)

687 N.Y.S.2d 84

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. ALBERTO PEREZ, Appellant.

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

Decided March 2, 1999.


The court properly declined to deliver a circumstantial evidence charge, since the case against defendant did not rest exclusively on circumstantial evidence. Contrary to defendant's argument, a constructive possession case is not necessarily a circumstantial case (People v Daddona, 81 N.Y.2d 990, 992). Defendant's constructive possession of the contraband itself, and not merely the apartment in which the contraband was found, was...

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