People v. Gelikkaya

OPINION OF THE COURT

Ciparick, J.

After a jury trial, defendant was convicted of attempted murder in the second degree. On this appeal, defendant challenges the prosecution’s use of portions of his Grand Jury testimony to impeach him on cross-examination. Although defendant concedes that he voluntarily waived his immunity and testified before the Grand Jury, he argues that the Trial Judge improperly admitted his Grand Jury testimony because it was given when he was incompetent, rendering the testimony inherently unreliable and inadmissible. We conclude that the Trial Judge, in the exercise of…