PEOPLE v. WROTTEN


60 A.D.3d 165 (2008)

871 N.Y.S.2d 28

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. JUWANNA WROTTEN, Appellant.

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

December 30, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard M. Greenberg, Office of the Appellate Defender, New York City (Daniel A. Warshawsky and Jonathan Marvinny of counsel), for appellant.

Robert T. Johnson, District Attorney, Bronx (Peter D. Coddington of counsel), for respondent.

ANDRIAS, J.P., and SWEENY, J., concur with McGUIRE, J., SAXE and FRIEDMAN, JJ., dissent in a separate opinion by FRIEDMAN, J.


OPINION OF THE COURT

McGUIRE, J.

This appeal calls upon us to determine whether Supreme Court erred in allowing the complainant to give televised testimony in defendant's assault trial. Although we do not decide this appeal on federal constitutional grounds, a review of the law on the scope of a defendant's Sixth Amendment right to confront the witnesses against him or her helps explain the state law ground on...

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