People v. Bing

(concurring as to result in Bing and Medina, and dissenting as to Cawley). Over the past several decades, this court applying the New York State Constitution evolved a body of law that "constitute^] the strongest protection of right to counsel anywhere in the country.” (Galie, The Other Supreme Courts: Judicial Activism Among State Supreme Courts, 33 Syracuse L Rev 731, 764 [1982]; see also, Galie, State Constitutional Guarantees and the Protection of Defendants’ Rights: The Case of New York, 1960-1978, 28 Buffalo L Rev 157, 178-186 [1979].) Our law in this area was neither the full-blown…