PEOPLE v. JONES


213 A.D.2d 184 (1995)

623 N.Y.S.2d 570

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Terrence Jones, Also Known as Rezell Jones, Appellant

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

March 7, 1995


The court properly exercised its discretion in denying defendant's request for a continuance on the basis of his claimed medical unfitness to proceed. The court was entitled to rely on its observations of defendant's unexceptional demeanor and its own common-sense evaluation of the trivial nature of defendant's medical problem (People v Brown, 202 A.D.2d 266, 267, lv denied 83 N.Y.2d 964), to wit, extraction of a tooth some...

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