PEOPLE v. ADAMS


53 N.Y.2d 241 (1981)

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Robert Adams, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided June 16, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marilyn A. Kneeland and William E. Hellerstein for appellant.

Mario Merola, District Attorney (Steven R. Kartagener and Charles L. Bach, Jr., of counsel), for respondent.

Judges JASEN, JONES, FUCHSBERG and MEYER concur with Judge WACHTLER; Chief Judge COOKE concurs in a separate opinion in which Judge GABRIELLI concurs.


WACHTLER, J.

Defendant appeals from an order of the Appellate Division affirming his conviction for robbery. The novel issue on the appeal is whether testimony of a station house showup should have been excluded as a matter of State constitutional law. Defendant also contends that he was denied his right to present witnesses on his behalf when the prosecutor refused to grant immunity to one of the defendant's...

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