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PEOPLE v. MENDOZA

No. 42.

33 N.Y.3d 414 (2019)

128 N.E.3d 165

104 N.Y.S.3d 38

2019 NY Slip Op 04758

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. DAVID MENDOZA, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of New York.

Decided June 13, 2019.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul Skip Laisure, Appellate Advocates, New York City (Caitlin Halpern of counsel), for appellant.

Eric Gonzalez, District Attorney, Brooklyn (Gamaliel Marrero and Leonard Joblove of counsel), for respondent.

OPINION OF THE COURT

This appeal presents the issue of whether defense counsel is ineffective for advancing a jury nullification defense at trial. Although jury nullification "is not a legally sanctioned function of the jury" (People v Goetz, 73 N.Y.2d 751, 752 [1988]), we...

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