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PEOPLE v. HARRIS

No. 83.

31 N.Y.3d 1183 (2018)

107 N.E.3d 541

82 N.Y.S.3d 321

2018 NY Slip Op 04667

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. WILLIAM HARRIS, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of New York.

Decided June 26, 2018.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP, New York City ( Daniel P. Schumeister of counsel), and Seymour W. James, Jr. , The Legal Aid Society, New York City ( David Crow of counsel), for appellant.

Eric Gonzalez , District Attorney, Brooklyn ( Rebecca L. Visgaitis and Leonard Joblove of counsel), for respondent.

OPINION OF THE COURT

MEMORANDUM.

The order of the Appellate Term should be reversed and a new trial ordered.

At the conclusion of defendant's bench trial on a class B misdemeanor offense and related charges, the trial court announced it would exercise its "prerogative" not to hear closing arguments. Even though the court previously granted the parties permission to deliver summations, it rescinded that...

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