People v. Wilson

OPINION OF THE COURT

Friedmann, J.

The issue presented on this appeal is whether counsel’s declaration of continued representation was sufficient to invoke a defendant’s right to counsel, precluding the Queens police officers who heard the declaration, and who knew that counsel was representing the defendant on related charges in Brooklyn which were dismissed, from legally obtaining a renunciation of the defendant’s right to counsel in the absence of counsel.

The record of the Wade hearing reveals that on June 24, 1990, the defendant and three other individuals were arrested in Brooklyn and…