PEOPLE v. FOSTER-BEY

No. 16

35 N.Y.3d 959 (2020)

147 N.E.3d 1129

124 N.Y.S.3d 591

2020 NY Slip Op 02124

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. ELIJAH FOSTER-BEY, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of New York.

Decided March 31, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul Skip Laisure , Appellate Advocates, New York City ( Dina Zloczower of counsel), for appellant.

Eric Gonzalez , District Attorney, Brooklyn ( Seth M. Lieberman and Leonard Joblove of counsel), for respondent.

Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, New York City ( Konrad Callteux and Carolyn R. Davis of counsel), and Innocence Project, Inc., New York City ( M. Chris Fabricant of counsel), for The Innocence Project, amicus curiae.

Jones Day, New York City ( Mein Feder and Donald L.R. Goodson of counsel), for Office of the Appellate Defender, Inc., and others, amici curiae.

The Legal Aid Society, New York City ( David Loftis , J. David Pollock and Terri S. Rosenblatt of counsel), and Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP, New York City ( William Beausoleil , Marc Weinstein , Miles Orton and Sabrine Tribie of counsel), for The Legal Aid Society, amicus curiae.


OPINION OF THE COURT

MEMORANDUM.

The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed.

This case was argued with People v Cadman Williams (35 N.Y.3d 24 [2020] [decided herewith]) and, although the underlying facts of the respective matters are different, the analysis and the result are the same. In this case defendant shot a New York City police officer twice in the leg in an incident that was...

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