PEOPLE v. WILLIAMS

3572, 4429/08.

78 A.D.3d 459 (2010)

911 N.Y.S.2d 37

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

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

Decided November 9, 2010.


On the day after jury deliberations began, the victim was arrested for a crime involving a bad check that had allegedly occurred shortly before her trial testimony. The court providently exercised its discretion in denying defendant's motion to reopen the evidence for the purpose of cross-examining the victim about the underlying facts of that arrest, or, in the alternative, for a mistrial.

Reopening testimony after the...

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