PEOPLE v. MELENDEZ


51 A.D.3d 1040 (2008)

861 N.Y.S.2d 64

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. JOSE MELENDEZ, Appellant.

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

Decided May 27, 2008.


Ordered that the judgment, as amended, is affirmed.

A fire in a three-story building claimed the lives of two residents of a top-floor apartment, and caused serious injury to a third. The fire was determined to have been nonaccidental. Two witnesses saw a man entering and leaving the building shortly before the fire started. Both of the witnesses identified the defendant in court as that man. On cross-examination, defense counsel confronted one of those witnesses...

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