Legal Opinion
People v. Sawyer
New York Court of Appeals
Decided July 2, 1982PublishedCited by 267 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Fuchsberg, J.
Once again we face sensitive questions associated with an indigent defendant’s pro se representation in a criminal case.
After trial by jury, defendant, Robert Earl Sawyer, was convicted, and thereafter sentenced to an indeterminate term of 25 years to life imprisonment on two counts of murder arising out of the fatal shooting of a grocery clerk in Stow, Chautauqua County. Upon arraignment, the County Court, on March 2,1978, advised him of his right to counsel and gave him a week in which to secure one.
On the adjourned date, March 9, Charles Fagan, Esq., who…
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