People v. Marin

OPINION OF THE COURT

Martin Marcus, J.

In People v Bartolomeo (53 NY2d 225 [1984]), the New York Court of Appeals announced that a person held in custody on *942one charge and represented by counsel on a pending and unrelated matter could not be questioned about the new charge in the absence of counsel. Six years later, in People v Bing (76 NY2d 331 [1990]), the Court abandoned this rule as unjustified and unworkable. Nonetheless, the law of this State —before and after Bing — is that a person may not be questioned in the absence of counsel about a charge "related” to a pending matter on which that…