PEOPLE v. WILLIAMS


289 A.D.2d 117 (2001)

735 N.Y.S.2d 36

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. JAMES WILLIAMS, Appellant.

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

Decided December 18, 2001.


The court properly admitted a redacted portion of a codefendant's plea allocution as a statement against penal interest, since the declarant's admission was made under circumstances that rendered it trustworthy (People v Thomas, 68 N.Y.2d 194, 199, cert denied 480 U.S. 948). The codefendant pleaded guilty to robbery in the second degree, and in satisfaction of the essential element...

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