People v. Carpenter
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Suffolk County (Doyle, J.), rendered March 6, 2006, convicting him of reckless endangerment in the first degree, unauthorized use of a motor vehicle in the third degree, criminal contempt in the second degree, and resisting arrest, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.
Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
Under the Federal and New York State Constitutions, a defendant in a criminal proceeding has a due process right to testify in his own defense (see United States v Dunnigan, 507 US 87, 96 [1993]; Rock v Arkansas, 483 US 44,…
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