Legal Opinion
People v. Brown
New York Court of Appeals
Decided May 2, 2002PublishedCited by 61 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Levine, J.
The common issue in these appeals is whether defendants Tony Brown and Luis Burgos-Santos were properly impeached at trial with prior inconsistent statements made by defense counsel on their behalf. The People impeached Brown with representations his attorney made at a pretrial Sandoval hearing concerning Brown’s intended trial testimony. BurgosSantos was impeached with a withdrawn alibi notice after he testified to a non-alibi defense. For the reasons that follow, we conclude that the statements in Brown were properly used for impeachment purposes, but that the…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- People v. CrimminsNew York Court of Appeals · 1975
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- Williams v. FloridaSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
- People v. RiveraNew York Court of Appeals · 1978
- People v. RiveraAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1977
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