A judge overstepped his authority when he precluded Queens prosecutors from using a defendant’s pre-arraignment statement due to what the judge said were ethical violations by the Queens office, a Brooklyn appellate court has ruled.
A unanimous panel of the Appellate Division, Second Department, yesterday issued a writ of prohibition blocking Acting Supreme Court Justice Joel Blumenfeld (See Profile) from imposing preclusion as a sanction against the district attorney’s office for a program that the judge viewed as “misleading and deceptive.”
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