People v. Morton
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Sullivan, J. P.
Defendant appeals from his conviction, after a jury trial, of robbery in the second degree and related offenses, alleging error in, inter alia, the trial court’s denial of his request for an adverse inference charge regarding a testifying officer’s lost or destroyed handwritten notes, which, by the officer’s own admission, were inconsistent with the typewritten version, and its refusal to permit defendant and his codefendant to attend the jury view of the crime scene. Since we believe that the first of these rulings denied defendant a fair trial and the…
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