Legal Opinion
People v. Arroyo
New York Court of Appeals
Decided January 19, 1982PublishedCited by 124 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Fuchsberg, J.
In the main, we are asked to say whether the admission at trial of an unavailable witness’ preliminary hearing testimony constituted an unconstitutional application of CPL 670.10 in violation of the right of confrontation. We find it did not.
Defendant was convicted, after a jury trial, of assault in the second degree and the Appellate Division has since affirmed. The charge stemmed from an incident in which he was alleged to have inflicted multiple stab wounds on his estranged “common-law wife”. When the case came on for trial, the People asserted that the…
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