PEOPLE v. RODRIGUEZ


22 A.D.3d 412 (2005)

802 N.Y.S.2d 358

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. CARLOS RODRIGUEZ, Appellant.

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

October 25, 2005.


The record fails to support defendant's contention that the court deprived him of a fair trial by assuming a prosecutorial role. "The court properly exercised its discretion when it advised the prosecutor to ask particular questions [of the police chemist], after determining that the prosecutor's inexperience [with drug cases] was undermining the orderly presentation of evidence and truth-seeking function of the trial . . . . Rather than asking the questions itself, the court...

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