PEOPLE v. MUNIZ-CAYETANO

Ind No. 870-18. Appeal No. 11885 No. 2019-3865.

186 A.D.3d 1169 (2020)

131 N.Y.S.3d 330

2020 NY Slip Op 05156

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Octaviano Muniz-Cayetano, Appellant.

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

Decided September 29, 2020.


The trial court failed to determine defendant's understanding and waiver of his right to present a defense of intoxication once defendant referenced the same during his plea allocution.

On December 10, 2017, a female guest at the Roger Hotel in Manhattan awoke in her room to find a strange man rummaging through her purse. Defendant, a hotel employee, was captured on the hotel's video surveillance, both entering the woman...

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