PEOPLE v. ROYSTER


43 A.D.3d 758 (2007)

842 N.Y.S.2d 12

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. JOHN ROYSTER, Appellant.

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

Decided September 25, 2007.


Defendant was convicted of brutally attacking and robbing three women in the course of a single week in 1996, causing the death of one of them. Defendant challenges the testimony of various relatives of the three victims as having no purpose except to induce sympathy and prejudice. As a general rule, the People are not limited in the quantum of relevant evidence that they wish to introduce (People v Alvino, 71 N.Y.2d 233, 241, 245...

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