Legal Opinion
People v. Galloway
New York Court of Appeals
Decided November 24, 1981PublishedCited by 1,335 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Fuchsberg, J.
Painstaking consideration of the record as a whole compels us to agree with the Appellate Division that, while the trial tactics of both the prosecutor and the defense counsel are highly criticizable, the defendant was not deprived of a fair trial.
In so deciding, we realistically recognize that a trial, particularly one which turns, as did the present one, on issues of credibility, under our time-tried adversary system in no small measure depends for the testing of truth and, ultimately, for a just determination on the clash of competing contentions advanced…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- People v. CrimminsNew York Court of Appeals · 1975
- People v. AshwalNew York Court of Appeals · 1976
- People v. ArceNew York Court of Appeals · 1977
- People v. BrosnanNew York Court of Appeals · 1973
- People v. AliceaNew York Court of Appeals · 1975
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3Cited by1,335 opinions
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