PEOPLE v. FLORES


14 A.D.3d 351 (2005)

789 N.Y.S.2d 105

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. AUGUSTIN FLORES, Appellant.

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

January 6, 2005.


The court properly delivered a consciousness-of-guilt charge, since defendant's abandonment, at the approach of the police, of a paper bag later discovered to contain heroin, as well as his struggle with the police before being handcuffed, provided a sufficient evidentiary predicate for such a charge (see People v Yazum, 13 N.Y.2d 302, 304 [1963]; see also People v Alexander, 37 N.Y.2d 202, 203...

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