Lawyers Manual - Unified Court System

218 Elizabeth Cronin
Notes
1. People v Robert Snyder, prosecuted by the Westchester District Attorney’s
Office in 1990.
2. FBI, Uniform Crime Reports (2002).
3. American Medical Association, Diagnostic and Treatment Guidelines on
Domestic Violence (1992).
4. See e.g. International Association of Chiefs of Police, Training Key 16:
Handling Disturbance Calls (1967).
5. American Bar Association, Project on Standards for Criminal Justice,
Standards Relating to the Urban Police Function (1973).
6. Pub L No. 103-322, codified in various sections of the USC (Title IV of
VAWA encouraged states to adopt mandatory arrest policies and criminalized
interstate domestic violence; the VAWA of 2000 improved the tools available
to law enforcement and reauthorized grants and strengthened federal statutes).
7. NY Laws 786 ch 222 (1994) (McKinney) revised at ch 224 § 1 (1994),
NY Laws 808.
8. K. Walsh, The Mandatory Arrest Law: Police Reaction, 16 Pace L Rev,
at 97, 98 (1996).
9. See Klein & Orloff, Providing Legal Protection for Battered Women: An
Analysis of State Statutes and Case Law, 21 Hofstra L Rev, at 801 (1993);
but see People v Pearson, 230 AD2d 612 (2d Dept 1997) (criminal mischief
does not lie where a spouse damages marital property since both have an
equitable interest in that property).
10. People v Nieves, 279 AD2d 388 (1st Dept 2001).
11. A. Roberts, B. Roberts, A Comprehensive Model for Crisis Intervention
with Battered Women and Their Children, Handbook of Domestic Violence
Intervention Strategies (2002).
12. People v Pobliner, 32 NY2d 356, 359 (1973) cert denied 416 US 905; see
also People v McGlothin, 773 6 AD3d 462 (2d Dept 2004).
13. See People v Alvarez, 3 AD3d 456 (1st Dept 2004) (admission of bloody
clothes and crime scene photographs depicting the victim’s blood not
inflammatory and is probative); People v Alvarez-Hernandez, 2002 WL
31065426 (Westchester Co Ct 2002) (J. Lange).