People v. Sinha
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
McGuire, J.
In criminal appeals, we often are asked to invoke our interest of justice jurisdiction, but for good reasons we seldom do. We exercise that authority in this case and reverse defendant’s conviction for bribing a witness (Penal Law § 215.00), one of the three felony crimes for which the jury returned a guilty verdict, because the prosecution failed to fulfill basic disclosure obligations that are essential to a fair trial. We do so without regard to whether those failures affected the jury’s verdict on that charge, because the prosecution failed in three separate…
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