The People v. Jonathan Batticks

State of New York OPINION Court of Appeals This opinion is uncorrected and subject to revision before publication in the New York Reports. No. 41 The People &c., Respondent, v. Jonathan Batticks, Appellant. Jonathan R. McCoy, for appellant. Rebecca Hausner, for respondent. DiFIORE, Chief Judge: This appeal by defendant presents the issue we found unpreserved on the appeal of his codefendant (People v Bailey,

32 NY3d 70, 82

[2018])—namely, whether the trial court abused its discretion as a matter of law in giving the jury a curative instruction and forgoing a Buford inquiry (People v Buford,

69…