People v. Fuschino

OPINION OF THE COURT

Jasen, J.

We are asked to decide whether the actual knowledge of one police department that the defendant was represented on a prior unrelated criminal charge that was still pending *95constructively imputes such knowledge to another separate police department for the purpose of invoking the defendant’s right to counsel. A subsidiary issue is whether the police acted in a manner which isolated the defendant to the extent that he was deprived of his right to counsel.

Between August of 1979 and January of 1980, a former classmate of the defendant received 10 threatening letters…