PEOPLE v. BELLAMY

194/94.

2008 NY Slip Op 51694 (U)

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK v. KAREEM BELLAMY, Defendant.

Supreme Court of the State of New York, Queens County.

Decided June 27, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, New York, NY (Darin P. McAtee, Antony L. Ryan, Craig A. Bachelor, Lindsay R. Goldstein, Diane M. Macina, Chelsea W. Teachout, Dashene A. Cooper,1 James J. Bilsborrow, and Robert A. Miranne,2 of counsel) and Thomas Hoffman, P.C.,3 for defendant Kareem Bellamy.

Richard A. Brown, District Attorney, Kew Gardens, NY (Sharon Y. Brodt, Roni C. Piplani, Johnnette Traill, Nicolette J. Caferri, and Brad Leventhal, of counsel), for the People.


JOEL L. BLUMENFELD, J.

In 1996, CourtTV aired a documentary about People v Bellamy, the instant case. The documentary was appropriately entitled "Anything You Say. . . . " because it was clear from what the judge and the parties thought, that the defendant was convicted mostly because of what he said at the time he was picked up for drinking beer in public as opposed to the other evidence in the case. It became clear to this court, after reading the...

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