PEOPLE v. SMITH

Nos. 109, 110, 111.

27 N.Y.3d 652 (2016)

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. CHARLES SMITH, Appellant. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. TYRELL INGRAM, Appellant. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. ISMA McGHEE, Also Known as Izzy, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of New York.

Decided June 28, 2016.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert S. Dean, Center for Appellate Litigation, New York City (Claudia B. Flores of counsel), for appellant in the first above-entitled action.

Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., District Attorney, New York City (Patricia Curran and Patrick J. Hynes of counsel), for respondent in the first above-entitled action.

Stanley Neustadter, Cardozo Appeals Clinic, New York City (Elsa Mitsoglou and Jeremey Gutman of counsel), for appellant in the second above-entitled action.

James A. McCarty, Special Acting District Attorney, White Plains (Raffaelina Gianfrancesco, Laurie G. Sapakoff and Steven A. Bender of counsel), for respondent in the second above-entitled action.

Robert S. Dean, Center for Appellate Litigation, New York City (Mark W. Zeno of counsel), and Sidley Austin LLP, New York City (Angela Zhu of counsel), for appellant in the third above-entitled action.

Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., District Attorney, New York City (Sylvia Wertheimer, Patrick J. Hynes and Sheila O'Shea of counsel), for respondent in the third above-entitled action.

David C. Schopp, Legal Aid Bureau of Buffalo, Inc., Buffalo (Timothy P. Murphy and Sherry A. Chase of counsel), for New York State Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, amicus curiae in the first above-entitled action.

Seymour W. James, Jr., The Legal Aid Society, New York City (Cynthia H. Conti-Cook of counsel), amicus curiae in the first, second and third above-entitled actions.

Opinion by Judge ABDUS-SALAAM. Chief Judge DIFIORE and Judges PIGOTT, RIVERA, STEIN, FAHEY and GARCIA concur.


OPINION OF THE COURT

The primary issue in these appeals is whether the trial courts abused their discretion in precluding any cross-examination into allegations of a law enforcement officer's prior misconduct made in an unrelated federal lawsuit. These cases stand for the...

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