People v. Dahlbender
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 Supreme Court, Suffolk County (Copertino, J.), rendered January 8, 2001, convicting him of murder in the second degree (two counts), upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.
Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
The trial court properly denied the defendant’s motion to dismiss the indictment on the ground of an alleged violation of his right to testify before the grand jury. As this Court has stated, the plain meaning of CPL 190.50 (5) (a) “compels the *494conclusion that the prosecutor had no duty to inform the defendant of his right to testify…
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