PEOPLE v. CORTEZ

No. 225

22 N.Y.3d 1061 (2014)

4 N.E.3d 952

981 N.Y.S.2d 651

2014 NY Slip Op 293

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. PAUL CORTEZ, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of New York.

Decided January 21, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Law Office of Marc Fernich, New York City ( Marc Fernich of counsel), for appellant.

Cyrus R. Vance, Jr. , District Attorney, New York City ( David M. Cohn and Hilary Hassler of counsel), for respondent.

Levitt & Kaizer, New York City ( Richard Ware Levitt and Dean M. Solomon of counsel), Joel B. Rudin , National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, and Richard Willstatter , New York State Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, White Plains, for National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and another, amici curiae.


OPINION OF THE COURT

MEMORANDUM.

Order affirmed. Defendant raises no error warranting a reversal of his conviction.

Chief Judge LIPPMAN (concurring).

Defendant stands convicted upon a jury verdict of murdering Catherine Woods. At trial, there was evidence that he had felt himself to be romantically involved with Ms. Woods, but that after a time Ms. Woods made it clear that she did not want their relationship, such as it was, to continue....

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