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People v. Vasquez

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department
Nov 16, 1987
134 A.D.2d 468 (N.Y. App. Div. 1987)

Opinion

November 16, 1987

Appeal from the Supreme Court, Kings County (Kooper, J.).


Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant's contention that the trial court erred in denying him a Mapp hearing is without merit. The defendant repeatedly conceded at Criminal Term that he had no expectation of privacy in the premises searched and, thus, he had no standing to object to the seizure of evidence therefrom (see, People v Ponder, 54 N.Y.2d 160; People v. Lewis, 108 A.D.2d 872).

Moreover, the defendant's claim that the court erred in failing to give an accomplice charge to the jury with respect to the prosecution witness Abimael Torres has not been preserved for appellate review. The defendant's counsel did not request that the court submit to the jury the question of whether the witness was an accomplice as a matter of fact nor did he request that the witness be considered an accomplice as a matter of law. Similarly, no objection on either basis was made to the court's final jury charge. Therefore, the defendant's claim has not been preserved for this court's review (see, CPL 470.05).

Finally, although the defendant's murder convictions arose out of a single transaction, they involved separate acts of shooting each victim which constituted independent offenses and the elements of each of these offenses were not material elements of the other. Thus, the court did not err in sentencing the defendant to consecutive terms of imprisonment for the murder of each victim (see, Penal Law § 70.25; People v. Brathwaite, 63 N.Y.2d 839, on remand 106 A.D.2d 509). Moreover, in light of the facts herein, the sentence imposed was not an abuse of discretion (see, People v. Farrar, 52 N.Y.2d 302; People v. Suitte, 90 A.D.2d 80). Mollen, P.J., Mangano, Brown and Lawrence, JJ., concur.


Summaries of

People v. Vasquez

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department
Nov 16, 1987
134 A.D.2d 468 (N.Y. App. Div. 1987)
Case details for

People v. Vasquez

Case Details

Full title:THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. NOEL VASQUEZ, Appellant

Court:Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department

Date published: Nov 16, 1987

Citations

134 A.D.2d 468 (N.Y. App. Div. 1987)

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