Legal Opinion
People v. Williams
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided December 29, 2015No. 16487 5268/12PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Juan M. Merchan, J.), rendered October 3, 2013, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of assault in the second degree and resisting arrest, and sentencing him, as a second violent felony offender, to an aggregate term of six years, unanimously affirmed.
The court properly exercised its discretion in ejecting defendant from the courtroom, and thus precluding him from continuing to represent himself. By engaging, after proper admonitions from the court, in persistently obstreperous and disruptive conduct that warranted removal (see Illinois v Allen,…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- People v. DanielsonNew York Court of Appeals · 2007
- Illinois v. AllenSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
- Waller v. GeorgiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- People v. McIntyreNew York Court of Appeals · 1974
- People v. EchevarriaNew York Court of Appeals · 2013
3Cited by9 opinions
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