PEOPLE v. CONTES


289 A.D.2d 128 (2001)

735 N.Y.S.2d 35

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent-Appellant, v. DAISY CONTES, Appellant-Respondent.

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

Decided December 18, 2001.


The verdict was based on legally sufficient evidence and was not against the weight of the evidence. Issues of credibility were properly considered by the trier of facts and there is no basis upon which to disturb its determinations (see, People v Gaimari, 176 N.Y. 84, 94). The accomplice testimony was sufficiently corroborated by documentary evidence supplied by the victim, bank records and testimony from defendant's coworker. Defendant's newly discovered evidence...

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