People v. Thomas

New York Court of Appeals · Decided 1978-12-07

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Fuchsberg, J. (dissenting). I would uphold the Appellate Term in its unanimous determination that the defendant was deprived of a fair trial both because of the admission of the defendant’s refusal to submit to a blood test and because it was error to foreclose the defendant from establishing the hostility of the prosecution’s witnesses. As I see it, in concluding that evidence of a refusal to submit to a blood…

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