PEOPLE v. YUSUF

No. 111.

19 N.Y.3d 314 (2012)

970 N.E.2d 422

947 N.Y.S.2d 399

2012 NY Slip Op 4200

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. MALIK YUSUF, Also Known as YUSUF M. ASHFORD, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of New York.

Decided May 31, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Center for Appellate Litigation, New York City ( Mark W. Zeno and Robert S. Dean of counsel), for appellant.

Cyrus R. Vance, Jr. , District Attorney, New York City ( Nicole Coviello and Eleanor J. Ostrow of counsel), for respondent.

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


OPINION OF THE COURT

READ, J.

On January 10, 2008, the police executed a no-knock search warrant at an apartment where defendant Malik Yusuf resided, leading to his arrest and subsequent conviction after a jury trial of three drug crimes—a class B felony, a class C felony and a class A misdemeanor. Prior to sentencing, the People filed two statements of predicate felony conviction. The first, filed...

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