PEOPLE v. SUERO

6151 3331/14 1437/15.

159 A.D.3d 656 (2018)

73 N.Y.S.3d 57

2018 NY Slip Op 02269

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. JONATHAN SUERO, Appellant.

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

Decided March 29, 2018.


The People should not have been permitted to introduce, as evidence of defendant's consciousness of guilt, a text exchange the day after the crime in which defendant indicated that he needed money "just in case for a lawyer." This evidence was an improper infringement of defendant's right to counsel (see People v Collins, 140 A.D.2d 186 [1st Dept 1988]; People v Perez, 90 A.D.2d 468 [1st...

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