PEOPLE v. HARDY


4 N.Y.3d 192 (2005)

824 N.E.2d 953

791 N.Y.S.2d 513

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. T.J. CHARLES HARDY, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided February 17, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Legal Aid Society of Suffolk County, Inc., Appeals Bureau, Riverhead (Charles W. Manning and Robert C. Mitchell of counsel), for appellant.

Thomas J. Spota, District Attorney, Riverhead (Glenn Green of counsel), for respondent.

Chief Judge KAYE and Judges G.B. SMITH, ROSENBLATT, GRAFFEO, READ and R.S. SMITH concur.


OPINION OF THE COURT

CIPARICK, J.

In this appeal, the parties agree that the admission of a nontestifying codefendant's plea allocution was subject to the requirements of the Sixth Amendment's Confrontation Clause as recently articulated by the United States Supreme Court in Crawford v Washington (541 U.S. 36 [2004]). We hold that, in light of Crawford, the trial court erred in admitting the plea allocution....

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