PEOPLE v. WILSON

Ind. No. 3831/18,4322/18. Appeal No. 15713. Case No. 2019-04796.

204 A.D.3d 476 (2022)

167 N.Y.S.3d 25

2022 NY Slip Op 02370

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Tristan Wilson, Appellant.

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

Decided April 12, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert S. Dean , Center for Appellate Litigation, New York ( Elizabeth G. Caldwell of counsel), for appellant.

Alvin L. Bragg, Jr. , District Attorney, New York ( Samuel Z. Goldfine of counsel), for respondent.

Concur—Manzanet-Daniels, J.P., Kapnick, Webber, Gesmer, Oing, JJ.


Defendant was not deprived of his right of self-representation. Contrary to defendant's arguments, he did not make "repeated" requests to proceed pro se, and the court neither denied nor ignored them (compare People v Trammell, 183 A.D.3d 155, 156 [1st Dept 2020], lv denied 35 N.Y.3d 1071 [2020]). Defendant made such a request in a letter to the court, but he rendered this request equivocal (see e.g. People v Cornelius, 132 A.D.3d 495...

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