People v. Harris

On this appeal from a judgment convicting the defendant of selling narcotics, the defendant raises two points.

The first concerns a statement obtained from bim after his arrest and under circumstances which concededly violated the requirements prescribed by the Supreme Court in Miranda v. Arizona (384 U. S. 436). In its direct case, the People did not offer the statement in evidence. On cross-examination, however, and over the defendant’s*objection, the statement was employed extensively by the prosecutor in cross-examining the defendant who had taken the witness stand in his own defense. The…