the machine tallies. In Nevada, delegates were bullied, threatened, and lied about for raising attention to the rigged caucus process. California experienced a huge surge in voter registration, and much of that was due to younger voters registering for the first time, a harbinger of a possible Bernie win. Election analyst Richard Charnin put the odds of Clinton beating Bernie in the state at 77 billion to one. And yet, Clinton still won, even when the hand counts were showing he was winning after all.

Pundits and pollsters didn’t seem to see this coming, and all night sat in shock while reporting a Trump win.

But Bernie supporters — and even Trump supporters — saw this day coming, one way or another. I was expecting Clinton to win, but only

People v Pabon (2018 NY Slip Op 08434)





People v Pabon


2018 NY Slip Op 08434


Decided on December 11, 2018


Appellate Division, First Department


Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.


This opinion is uncorrected and subject to revision before publication in the Official Reports.



Decided on December 11, 2018

Sweeny, J.P., Renwick, Oing, Moulton, JJ.


7839 3616/09

[*1]The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
vJoseph Pabon, Defendant-Appellant.


Christina A. Swarns, Office of the Appellate Defender, New York (Stephen R. Strother of counsel), for appellant.
Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., District Attorney, New York (Valerie Figueredo of counsel), for respondent.

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Maxwell Wiley, J.), rendered June 5, 2012, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of murder in the second degree and kidnapping in the first degree, and sentencing