People v. Dawson

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Richard Carruthers, J.), rendered December 15, 1997, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of murder in the second degree, and sentencing him to a term of 25 years to life, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly exercised its discretion when it denied defendant’s mistrial motion made after the court revised its suppression ruling during trial by granting defendant’s motion to suppress two largely exculpatory statements. The court acted on the basis of two Court of Appeals decisions handed down at that time which made clear that the trial court’s…