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PEOPLE v. SILBURN

No. 28.

31 N.Y.3d 144 (2018)

98 N.E.3d 696

74 N.Y.S.3d 781

2018 NY Slip Op 02286

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. SPENCE SILBURN, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of New York.

Decided April 3, 2018.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul Skip Laisure, Appellate Advocates, New York City (Alexis A. Ascher and Lynn W.L. Fahey of counsel), for appellant.

Eric Gonzalez, District Attorney, Brooklyn (Howard B. Goodman and Leonard Joblove of counsel), for respondent.

Judges STEIN, FAHEY, GARCIA and FEINMAN concur; Judge WILSON dissents in an opinion, in which Judge RIVERA concurs in a separate dissenting opinion.

OPINION OF THE COURT

We are called upon to decide two issues in this appeal. Defendant contends that he was denied his right of self-representation when the trial court denied his request to proceed pro se with "standby counsel." Defendant further argues that he was deprived...

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