ALBANY – An appellate panel appeared skeptical over how a defendant’s right to a fair trial could not have been violated when a sheriff’s deputy put a pamphlet in the defendant’s pocket suggesting that God wanted him to confess.
Appellate Division, Third Department, Presiding Justice Karen Peters (See Profile) said during oral arguments Friday that in her 40-year career as a private attorney, prosecutor and judge, she has “never seen anything like” the situation surrounding the trial of defendant Charlie Robles in March 2012.
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