People v. Veras’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “Defendant’s conviction arose from a shooting which took place in a Jerome Avenue park on the afternoon of August 2, 1986. The complaining witness was sitting on a bench with a woman Mend when defendant, whom they apparently both knew, started to curse at them, called them traitors and said he was glad of the opportunity to kill both of them, and began shooting. While the woman was initially wounded in the leg, the complainant testified that he managed to escape unharmed only because the first two shots at him misfired and the third narrowly missed him as he was running away. After the complainant fled, and with eyewitnesses watching from a nearby window, defendant then shot the worn an twice more as she tried to crawl away, causing her death.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Veras v. Strack

2. “[Veras] now argues that the [trial] court erred in failing to sua sponte charge the jury with attempted manslaughter in the first degree as a lesser included charge of the attempted murder in the second degree of the surviving victim. However, that issue is not preserved since defendant never requested such a charge to the attempted murder and has therefore waived any argument that it was warranted. Moreover, the failure to so charge in the absence of a request ‘does not constitute error.’ As to the ineffective assistance of trial counsel argument, the record as it stands, viewed in totality, reveals that defendant’s trial attorney provided meaningful representation.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Veras v. Strack