People v. Blake, 39 A.D.3d 402 (N.Y. App. Div. 2007). · Go Syfert
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26 citation events (26 in the last 25 years) across 2 distinct courts.
Strongest positive: People v. Hartsgrove (nyappdiv, 2026-01-13)
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discussed Cited as authority (rule) People v. Hartsgrove (2×)
N.Y. App. Div. · 2026 · confidence medium
The court, following the Criminal Jury Instructions (CJI), properly instructed the jury that defendant was an interested witness ( see People v Blake , 39 AD3d 402, 403 [1st Dept 2007], lv denied 9 NY3d 873 [2007]).
discussed Cited as authority (rule) People v. Lacen
N.Y. App. Div. · 2024 · confidence medium
As an alternative holding, we find that the charge, which followed the Criminal Jury Instructions, was not constitutionally deficient ( see People v Roby , 217 AD3d 505 , 507 [1st Dept 2023], lv denied 40 NY3d 952 [2023]; People v Blake , 39 AD3d 402, 403 [1st Dept 2007], lv denied 9 NY3d 873 [2007]).
discussed Cited as authority (rule) People v. Lacen
N.Y. App. Div. · 2024 · confidence medium
As an alternative holding, we find that the charge, which followed the Criminal Jury Instructions, was not constitutionally deficient ( see People v Roby , 217 AD3d 505 , 507 [1st Dept 2023], lv denied 40 NY3d 952 [2023]; People v Blake , 39 AD3d 402, 403 [1st Dept 2007], lv denied 9 NY3d 873 [2007]).
cited Cited as authority (rule) People v. Pitts
N.Y. App. Div. · 2024 · confidence medium
As an alternative holding, we reject it on the merits ( see People v Blake , 39 AD3d 402, 403 [1st Dept 2007], lv denied 9 NY3d 873 [2007]).
cited Cited as authority (rule) People v. Pitts
N.Y. App. Div. · 2024 · confidence medium
As an alternative holding, we reject it on the merits ( see People v Blake , 39 AD3d 402, 403 [1st Dept 2007], lv denied 9 NY3d 873 [2007]).
discussed Cited as authority (rule) People v. Roby
N.Y. App. Div. · 2023 · confidence medium
The charge, which followed the Criminal Jury Instructions, was not constitutionally deficient ( see People v Torres , 179 AD3d 543 , 545 [1st Dept 2020], lv denied 35 NY3d 995 [2020]; People v Blake , 39 AD3d 402, 403 [1st Dept 2007], lv denied 9 NY3d 873 [2007]; see also Reagan v United States, 157 US 301, 305-311 [1895]).
discussed Cited as authority (rule) People v. Roby
N.Y. App. Div. · 2023 · confidence medium
The charge, which followed the Criminal Jury Instructions, was not constitutionally deficient ( see People v Torres , 179 AD3d 543 , 545 [1st Dept 2020], lv denied 35 NY3d 995 [2020]; People v Blake , 39 AD3d 402, 403 [1st Dept 2007], lv denied 9 NY3d 873 [2007]; see also Reagan v United States, 157 US 301, 305-311 [1895]).
discussed Cited as authority (rule) People v. Ruiz
N.Y. App. Div. · 2023 · confidence medium
"The charge contained no language about defendant having a motive to lie," and "nothing in the charge assumed or suggested that he was guilty" ( People v Blake , 39 AD3d 402, 403 [1st Dept 2007], lv denied 9 NY3d 873 [2007]; see also Reagan v United States , 157 US 301, 305-311 [1895]).
discussed Cited as authority (rule) People v. Coleman
N.Y. App. Div. · 2023 · confidence medium
That charge is not constitutionally deficient in any respect ( People v Blake , 39 AD3d 402, 403 [1st Dept 2007], lv denied 9 NY3d 873 [2007]; see also Reagan v United States , 157 US 301, 305-311 [1895]).
discussed Cited as authority (rule) People v. Coleman
N.Y. App. Div. · 2023 · confidence medium
That charge is not constitutionally deficient in any respect ( People v Blake , 39 AD3d 402, 403 [1st Dept 2007], lv denied 9 NY3d 873 [2007]; see also Reagan v United States , 157 US 301, 305-311 [1895]).
discussed Cited as authority (rule) People v. Aguilar
N.Y. App. Div. · 2022 · confidence medium
As an alternative holding, we find that the evidentiary rulings did not violate defendant's right to present a defense ( see Crane v Kentucky , 476 US 683, 689-690 [1986]), and that the interested witness charge was not constitutionally deficient ( see People v Blake , 39 AD3d 402, 403 [1st Dept 2007], lv denied 9 NY3d 873 [2007]; see also Reagan v United States , 157 US 301, 305-311 [1895]) We perceive no basis for reducing the sentence.
discussed Cited as authority (rule) People v. Aguilar
N.Y. App. Div. · 2022 · confidence medium
As an alternative holding, we find that the evidentiary rulings did not violate defendant's right to present a defense ( see Crane v Kentucky , 476 US 683, 689-690 [1986]), and that the interested witness charge was not constitutionally deficient ( see People v Blake , 39 AD3d 402, 403 [1st Dept 2007], lv denied 9 NY3d 873 [2007]; see also Reagan v United States , 157 US 301, 305-311 [1895]) We perceive no basis for reducing the sentence.
discussed Cited as authority (rule) People v. Boone
N.Y. App. Div. · 2017 · confidence medium
The court’s interested witness charge, which followed the Criminal Jury Instructions, was not constitutionally deficient. (see People v Davis, 127 AD3d 614, 615 [1st Dept 2015], lv denied 26 NY3d 928 [2015]; People v Blake, 39 AD3d 402, 403 [1st Dept 2007], lv denied 9 NY3d 873 [2007]).
discussed Cited as authority (rule) People v. Davis
N.Y. App. Div. · 2015 · confidence medium
The court’s interested witness instruction was not constitutionally deficient in any respect (see People v Blake, 39 AD3d 402, 403 [1st Dept 2007], lv denied 9 NY3d 873 [2007]; see also Reagan v United States, 157 US 301, 305-311 [1895]). *616 We perceive no basis for reducing the sentence.
discussed Cited as authority (rule) People v. Wilson
N.Y. App. Div. · 2012 · confidence medium
Instead, it simply referred to defendant as an interested witness and permitted the jury to consider whether any witness’s interest or lack of interest in the outcome of the case affected the witness’s truthfulness (see People v Blake, 39 AD3d 402, 403 [2007], lv denied 9 NY3d 873 [2007]).
discussed Cited as authority (rule) People v. Piedra
N.Y. App. Div. · 2011 · confidence medium
In any event, “[t]he jury charge contained no language stating that the defendant had ‘a motive to lie or deep personal interest in the case,’ and nothing in the charge assumed or suggested that he was guilty or shifted the burden of proof’ (People v Brokenbough, 52 AD3d 525, 525 [2008], quoting People v Blake, 39 AD3d 402, 403 [2007]; cf. People v Ochs, 3 NY2d 54, 56 [1957]; United States v Brutus, 505 F3d 80, 87-88 [2007]; United States v Gaines, 457 F3d 238, 244-250 [2006]).
discussed Cited as authority (rule) People v. D'Juan Collins
N.Y. App. Div. · 2010 · confidence medium
As an alternative holding, we also find there was no constitutional deficiency in the charge (see Reagan v United States, 157 US 301, 305-311 [1895]; Hicks v United States, 150 US 442, 451-452 [1893]; People v Blake, 39 AD3d 402, 403 [2007], lv denied 9 NY3d 873 [2007]).
discussed Cited as authority (rule) People v. Campbell (2×) also: Cited "see"
N.Y. App. Div. · 2009 · confidence medium
The Supreme Court’s interested witness charge properly identified the defendant as an example of an interested witness and permitted the jury to consider whether any witness’s interest or lack of interest in the outcome of the case affected the truthfulness of such witness’s testimony (see People v Broken-bough, 52 AD3d 525 [2008]; People v Blake, 39 AD3d 402, 403 [2007]).
cited Cited as authority (rule) People v. Best
N.Y. App. Div. · 2008 · confidence medium
There was nothing constitutionally deficient about the court’s interested witness charge concerning defendant’s testimony (see People v Blake, 39 AD3d 402, 403 [2007], lv denied 9 NY3d 873 [2007]).
discussed Cited as authority (rule) People v. Brokenbough (2×)
N.Y. App. Div. · 2008 · confidence medium
The jury charge properly identified the defendant as an example of an interested witness and permitted the jury to consider whether any witness’s interest or lack of interest in the outcome of the case affected the truthfulness of such witness’s testimony (see People v Agosto, 73 NY2d 963, 967 [1989]; People v Blake, 39 AD3d 402, 403 [2007]).
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The People of the State of New York
v.
Deanie Blake
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York.
Apr 24, 2007.
39 A.D.3d 402
Cited by 21 opinions  |  Published

[*403] Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Steven L. Barrett, J., on severance and suppression motions; Martin Marcus, J., at jury trial and sentence), rendered March 22, 2005, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of sodomy in the first degree and sexual abuse in the first degree, and sentencing him, as a persistent violent felony offender, to concurrent terms of 25 years and 12 years, respectively, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant’s challenge to the sufficiency of the evidence is unpreserved and we decline to review it in the interest of justice. Were we to review this claim, we would find that the verdict was based on legally sufficient evidence. We further find that the verdict was not against the weight of the evidence. There is no basis for disturbing the jury’s determinations concerning credibility (see People v Bleakley, 69 NY2d 490, 495 [1987]). The fact that the jury reached a mixed verdict, including different verdicts on counts relating to the same victim, does not warrant a different conclusion (see People v Horne, 97 NY2d 404, 413 [2002]; People v Rayam, 94 NY2d 557 [2000]).

The court’s interested witness charge did not shift the burden of proof or undermine the presumption of innocence. The court delivered the standard charge (see CJI2d[NY] Credibility-Interest/Lack of Interest; People v Agosto, 73 NY2d 963, 967 [1989]), which simply referred to defendant as an example of an interested witness and permitted the jury to consider whether any witness’s interest or lack of interest in the outcome of the case affected the truthfulness of such witness’s testimony. The charge contained no language about defendant having a motive to lie or deep personal interest in the case, and nothing in the charge assumed or suggested that he was guilty (compare People v Ochs, 3 NY2d 54 [1957]; United States v Gaines, 457 F3d 238, 244-250 [2d Cir 2006]).

The court providently exercised its discretion in denying defendant’s severance motion (see e.g. People v Streitferdt, 169 AD2d 171, 176 [1991], lv denied 78 NY2d 1015 [1991]; People v Ndeye, 159 AD2d 397 [1990], lv denied 76 NY2d 793 [1990]). There was no material variance in the quantity of proof presented with respect to the charges relating to two unrelated sexual attacks that were lawfully joined. The fact that defen[*404] dant was acquitted of all of the charges relating to one of the attacks demonstrates that he was not prejudiced by the joint trial (see People v Cannon, 306 AD 2d 130, 131 [2003], lv denied 1 NY3d 539 [2003]).

The court properly denied defendant’s suppression motion. The DNA sample obtained from defendant pursuant to Executive Law § 995-c (3) while he was incarcerated on an unrelated matter was a search that fell within the “special needs” exception to the prohibition against suspicionless searches, and the process by which such samples are obtained was not implemented to uncover ordinary criminal wrongdoing (see Nicholas v Goord, 430 F3d 652 [2d Cir 2005], cert denied 549 US —, 127 S Ct 384 [2006]; see also People v Hardison, 5 AD3d 312 [2004], lv denied 2 NY3d 800 [2004]). Concur—Andrias, J.P., Saxe, Marlow, Nardelli and Williams, JJ.