PEOPLE v. WALTERS

6853, 3726N/14.

162 A.D.3d 489 (2018)

78 N.Y.S.3d 90

2018 NY Slip Op 04294

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Gerald Walters, Appellant.

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

Decided June 12, 2018.


The court providently exercised its discretion in denying defendant's mistrial motion, made when, in response to a question calling for confidential police information, a detective warned that if defendant learned this information he could "make phone calls out of Rikers Island." The court struck this remark and gave a thorough curative instruction, the language of which was approved by defendant, although he still sought the drastic...

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