PEOPLE v. WHATTS

10812, Ind 64579C/07

116 A.D.3d 456 (2014)

983 N.Y.S.2d 253

2014 NY Slip Op 2382

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. NORMA WHATTS, Appellant.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department.

Decided April 8, 2014.


Defendant brings a weight of the evidence challenge to her conviction of various offenses relating to resisting arrest. The People's and the defense witnesses' accounts begin somewhat consistently, but diverge completely at the point of defendant's husband's arrest. The People's witnesses describe escalating violence at this point in time, with defendant's husband cursing at an officer who stopped him on the street, and defendant approaching the encounter screaming at the...

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