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People v. Gattis

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department
Dec 10, 1998
256 A.D.2d 93 (N.Y. App. Div. 1998)

Opinion

December 10, 1998

Appeal from the Supreme Court, New York County (Colleen McMahon, J.).


The court's refusal to deliver a specific interested witness charge with respect to a witness who had entered into a cooperation agreement is not a basis for reversal, since the court gave sufficient general instructions on assessing credibility, including an instruction that the jury could consider motive to falsify, and since the agreement was stressed on cross-examination and summation ( see, People v. Inniss, 83 N.Y.2d 653, 659).

Concur — Lerner, P. J., Ellerin, Andrias and Saxe, JJ.


Summaries of

People v. Gattis

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department
Dec 10, 1998
256 A.D.2d 93 (N.Y. App. Div. 1998)
Case details for

People v. Gattis

Case Details

Full title:THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. LEONARD GATTIS…

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

Date published: Dec 10, 1998

Citations

256 A.D.2d 93 (N.Y. App. Div. 1998)
680 N.Y.S.2d 851

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