PEOPLE v. ACEVEDO


40 N.Y.2d 701 (1976)

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Agilio Acevedo, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided December 2, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Christopher B. Kende and William E. Hellerstein, New York City, for appellant.

Eugene Gold, District Attorney (J. Mitchell Rosenberg of counsel), Brooklyn, for respondent.

Chief Judge BREITEL and Judges JASEN, GABRIELLI, JONES, WACHTLER and COOKE concur.


FUCHSBERG, J.

After trial by a jury defendant stands convicted as the masked robber in a holdup at the Pierrepont Hotel in Brooklyn. His identification was based largely on the recognition of his voice by a single witness. The principal issue on this appeal is whether it was error for the trial court, during the witness' cross-examination, to have refused to allow an in-court experiment by which the defendant...

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