PEOPLE v. GATTIS


256 A.D.2d 93 (1998)

680 N.Y.S.2d 851

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. LEONARD GATTIS, Appellant.

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

Decided December 10, 1998.


The court's refusal to deliver a specific interested witness charge with respect to a witness who had entered into a cooperation agreement is not a basis for reversal, since the court gave sufficient general instructions on assessing credibility, including an instruction that the jury could consider motive to falsify, and since the agreement was stressed on cross-examination and summation (see, People v Inniss, 83 N.Y.2d 653...

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