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· 12/29/1960

In re the Accounting of Ossman

Citations

  • 27 Misc. 2d 632
  • 209 N.Y.S.2d 251
  • 1960 N.Y. Misc. LEXIS 1952

How courts have described this case

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  • noting that a defendant “will not be permitted to brutalize his victim and then keep the jury from learning exactly how brutal the assault was.”
  • such evidence was found to be admissible where prosecutor in an effort to show motive for witness’s recantation, questioned witness as to defendant’s incarceration and possible access defendant had to witness
  • trial court’s increase of sentence upon motion to modify by the prosecution from seven and one-half years to fifteen years to not less than ten nor more than twenty years does not violate principles of double jeopardy

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Judges: Bennett

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