Legal Opinion
People v. Conyers
New York Court of Appeals
Decided April 2, 1981PublishedCited by 171 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Gabrielli, J.
Defendant Thomas Conyers was tried before a jury and convicted of several criminal counts in connection with the armed robbery of Marion Dantzler and Grace Johnson. The Appellate Division, however, reversed the conviction after concluding that defendant had been deprived of his right to a fair trial (65 AD2d 437). We affirmed the decision of the Appellate Division, in part because, in our view, defendant’s right to due process of law had been violated by the District Attorney’s use of his postarrest silence to impeach his testimony at trial (49 NY2d 174). The…
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