Legal Opinion
People v. Carter
New York Court of Appeals
Decided November 29, 1990PublishedCited by 79 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*99OPINION OF THE COURT
Hancock, Jr., J.
Defendants were tried jointly before a jury and convicted of drug-related crimes. The common question in their appeals is whether the convictions should be set aside as invalid because the Assistant District Attorney who handled the prosecution — both in presenting evidence to the Grand Jury which returned the indictments and later in conducting the actual trial — was not licensed as an attorney. They advance two arguments: (1) that the appearance before the Grand Jury of the nonlawyer Assistant District Attorney *100constituted the presence of an unauthorized…
2Cases cited17 opinions
- People v. . MolineuxNew York Court of Appeals · 1901
- People v. AlvinoNew York Court of Appeals · 1987
- Young v. United States Ex Rel. Vuitton Et Fils S. A.Supreme Court of the United States · 1987
- People v. FelderNew York Court of Appeals · 1979
- People v. ZimmerNew York Court of Appeals · 1980
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3Cited by79 opinions
- People v. TillNew York Court of Appeals · 1995
- People v. RojasNew York Court of Appeals · 2001
- People v. SteinbergAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1991
- Haggerty v. HimeleinNew York Court of Appeals · 1997
- Munoz v. KeaneDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1991
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