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PEOPLE v. FLORES

No. 141.

32 N.Y.3d 1087 (2018)

2018 NY Slip Op 08540

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Appellant, v. ALEX FLORES, LUCIO RAMIREZ, BENIGNO AGUILAR and EMMANUEL FLORES, Respondents.

Court of Appeals of New York.

Decided December 13, 2018.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David M. Hoovler , District Attorney, Goshen ( Robert H. Middlemiss , and Andrew R. Kass , of counsel), for appellant.

Leonard J. Levenson , New York City, for respondents.

OPINION OF THE COURT

MEMORANDUM.

The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed. The trial court committed reversible error by empaneling an anonymous jury. Assuming that trial courts may, under certain circumstances, anonymize jurors, here County Court acted without any factual predicate for the extraordinary procedure. Indeed, the trial court expressly based its decision to empanel an anonymous jury on anecdotal accounts from jurors in unrelated...

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