The defendant was convicted of murder in the second degree in a trial that was conducted prior to several decisions by the New York Court of Appeals setting forth principles under which actual or constructive knowledge by investigating police officers of a defendant's representation by counsel in connection with a prior unrelated arrest precludes the right to question defendant in the absence of such counsel (see People v Bartolomeo,
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