Legal Opinion
People v. Alston
New York Court of Appeals
Decided June 28, 1996PublishedCited by 40 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Levine, J.
Defendants in these cases raise a common issue regarding the proper construction of CPL 270.15, the statutory provision governing jury selection: whether that section mandates that the People make all their peremptory challenges to a particular array before the defendant is required to make any, or if it permits the court to require both parties to exercise peremptory challenges to a subset of jurors or sequentially to individual jurors in a particular array.
In People v Alston, the court and the parties questioned the group of prospective jurors seated in the…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- People v. HarrisNew York Court of Appeals · 1982
- People v. . McQuadeNew York Court of Appeals · 1888
- The People v. . CarpenterNew York Court of Appeals · 1886
- People v. GriecoNew York Court of Appeals · 1934
- People v. MancusoNew York Court of Appeals · 1968
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3Cited by40 opinions
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- People v. JabotAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2012
- People v. HindsAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2000
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