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PEOPLE v. KNOWLES

88 N.Y.2d 763 (1996)

673 N.E.2d 902

650 N.Y.S.2d 617

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Newton Knowles, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided October 22, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cynthia Colt, New York City, and Daniel L. Greenberg for appellant.

Richard A. Brown, District Attorney of Queens County, Kew Gardens (Bruce Seeliger, John M. Castellano and Robin A. Forshaw of counsel), for respondent.

Jonathan E. Gradess, Albany, and Alfred O'Connor for New York State Defenders Association, amicus curiae.

Chief Judge KAYE and Judges BELLACOSA, LEVINE and CIPARICK concur with Judge TITONE; Judge SMITH concurs in result in a separate opinion; Judge SIMONS dissents and votes to affirm in another opinion.

TITONE, J.

At the defendant's trial for the crime of criminal sale of a controlled substance, the trial court refused to permit a second attorney assigned by Legal Aid to the defense to cross-examine a witness or to sit at the defense table. Because nothing on the record suggests that the presence of the second attorney, with whom defendant had established an attorney-client relationship, would have jeopardized...

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