PEOPLE v. HARRIS


76 N.Y.2d 810 (1990)

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Rodney Harris, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided July 5, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph W. LaFay and Gerald T. Barth for appellant.

Robert E. Wildridge, District Attorney (Lisa Sapino of counsel), for respondent.

Chief Judge WACHTLER and Judges SIMONS, ALEXANDER, HANCOCK, JR., and BELLACOSA concur; Judge TITONE dissents and votes to reverse in an opinion in which Judge KAYE concurs.


MEMORANDUM.

The orders of the Appellate Division should be affirmed.

Defendant was tried on charges arising out of an incident during which he imprisoned the complainant in her home, threatened to kill her, choked her, sodomized her and threatened to do the same to her two young daughters. While the jury was deliberating they sent the Judge a note asking for a readback of trial testimony. The Judge, accompanied by...

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