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PEOPLE v. BECOATS

Nos. 175, 176.

17 N.Y.3d 643 (2011)

958 N.E.2d 865

934 N.Y.S.2d 737

2011 NY Slip Op 7306

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. COREY E. BECOATS, Appellant. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. JASON L. WRIGHT, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of New York.

Decided October 20, 2011.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Easton Thompson Kasperek Shiffrin LLP, Rochester ( Donald M. Thompson , and Brian Shiffrin , of counsel), and Kristin Splain , Conflict Defender, for appellant.

Michael C. Green , District Attorney, Rochester ( Kelly Christine Wolford , of counsel), for respondent.

Jonathan I. Edelstein , New York City, for appellant in the second above-entitled action.

Michael C. Green , District Attorney, Rochester ( Kelly Christine Wolford , of counsel), for respondent.

Judges CIPARICK, GRAFFEO, READ and PIGOTT concur with Judge SMITH; Chief Judge LIPPMAN dissents in a separate opinion in which Judge JONES concurs.

OPINION OF THE COURT

SMITH, J.

Defendants, Corey Becoats and Jason Wright, appeal their convictions for manslaughter and robbery. We reject most of their arguments, but conclude that Wright is entitled to a new trial because of an error in excluding evidence he tried to present in his defense.

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The People sought to prove that defendants, acting with a third man, Sherrod Carter (who had...

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