PEOPLE v. GASTON

10956.

180 A.D.3d 429 (2020)

117 N.Y.S.3d 237

2020 NY Slip Op 00905

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Benjamin Gaston, Appellant.

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

Decided February 6, 2020.


The court providently exercised its discretion in limiting evidence of the victim's use of or addiction to drugs, and the court's rulings did not violate defendant's right to present a defense (see Crane v Kentucky, 476 U.S. 683, 689-690 [1986]). Defendant sought to call an expert psychiatrist who had not examined the victim to testify about the effects of drug use, and sought to ask related questions of the victim's treating physician...

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