ALBANY – The Court of Appeals Tuesday reversed the conviction in a 22-year-old Putnam County murder case and ordered a new trial, finding the defendant was improperly denied the opportunity to implicate a third party.
In two other decisions, both touching on the Sixth Amendment right of confrontation and the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Bruton v. United States, 391 U.S. 123 (1968), the court ruled that evidence presented to jurors prejudiced two defendants who did not have the opportunity to challenge witnesses directly.
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