PEOPLE v. RAOSTO


50 A.D.3d 508 (2008)

856 N.Y.S.2d 86

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. VINCENT RAOSTO, Appellant.

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

Decided April 24, 2008.


"[T]he Trial Justice unduly injected himself into the proceeding to such an extent as to deny defendant a fair and impartial trial." (People v Ellis, 62 A.D.2d 469, 470 [1978].) In particular, the court conducted lengthy and inappropriate cross-examinations of defendant and defense witnesses, which were neither neutral nor aimed at clarification, but disrupted the flow of testimony and...

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