PEOPLE v. SMOLYANSKI


186 A.D.2d 601 (1992)

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Yakov Smolyanski, Appellant

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Second Department.

October 5, 1992


Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

At his trial, the defendant, who had emigrated from Russia in 1979, requested that he be allowed to testify in English and thereafter was, for the most part, allowed to do so on his direct examination. Before the onset of cross-examination, the court stated that the defendant would be required to testify through an interpreter on cross-examination because "some of the record" had not come out as clearly as the court would

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