PEOPLE v. TAYLOR

No. 183.

15 N.Y.3d 518 (2010)

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. GREGORY TAYLOR, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of New York.

Decided November 18, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law Criminal Appeals Clinic, New York City ( Jonathan H. Oberman and Stanley Neustadter of counsel), for appellant.

Robert T. Johnson , District Attorney, Bronx ( Frances Y. Wang and Peter D. Coddington of counsel), for respondent.

Chief Judge LIPPMAN and Judges CIPARICK, GRAFFEO, READ, SMITH and PIGOTT concur.


OPINION OF THE COURT

JONES, J.

On this appeal, we are called upon to determine whether defendant preserved a legal sufficiency challenge to his depraved indifference murder conviction and, if preserved, whether his conviction should be affirmed. Because defendant sufficiently preserved that challenge and the conviction is not in accord with this Court's precedents regarding depraved indifference murder, we reverse the Appellate Division order.

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