PEOPLE v. MORALES


262 A.D.2d 202 (1999)

693 N.Y.S.2d 11

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. LUIS MORALES, Appellant.

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

Decided June 22, 1999.


The court properly exercised its discretion in denying defendant's mistrial motion based on inadvertently elicited references by two of the People's witnesses to statements made by defendant's codefendant implicating defendant in the murder. Rather than merely delivering a limiting instruction, the court immediately struck the offending testimony in both instances. We conclude that the inadvertent introduction of this testimony...

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