PEOPLE v. GORDON


179 Misc.2d 940 (1999)

688 N.Y.S.2d 380

The People of the State of New York, Plaintiff, v. James Allen Gordon, Defendant.

Supreme Court, Queens County.

January 29, 1999


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Allen Gordon, defendant pro se. Richard A. Brown, District Attorney of Queens County (James C. Quinn of counsel), for plaintiff.


THOMAS A. DEMAKOS, J.

At the conclusion of a capital case when the citizens of the State of New York who served as jurors on that case are asked to take a human life, it is the court's goal that every aspect of that case had been presented to those jurors in the very best of adversarial proceedings. It is therefore axiomatic that self-representation by an uneducated and ostensibly ill-equipped defendant would...

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