PEOPLE v. KARIM

11804. 4917/15.

185 A.D.3d 464 (2020)

125 N.Y.S.3d 278

2020 NY Slip Op 03871

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Isa Abdul Karim, Appellant.

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

Decided July 9, 2020.


The court providently exercised its discretion in denying defendant's motion for a mistrial, the only remedy requested, because there were "less drastic means of alleviating whatever prejudice may have resulted" (People v Young, 48 N.Y.2d 995, 996 [1980]). Although the jury could have reasonably inferred from a prosecution witness's unsolicited passing remark that defendant had been arrested for an unrelated crime while awaiting...

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