People v. Wardlaw
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Kehoe, J.
On this appeal by defendant from a judgment convicting him of crimes involving his sexual abuse of a child, we address the issue that the Court of Appeals declined to decide in People v Slaughter (78 NY2d 485, 492 [1991]), i.e., whether the denial of a defendant’s right to be represented by counsel at a pretrial suppression hearing is subject to harmless error analysis. We hold that harmless error analysis applies and that the error is harmless under the circumstances of this case.
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By judgment of Erie County Court, defendant was convicted upon a jury verdict of…
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