People v. West

New York Court of Appeals · Decided 1993-06-08

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OPINION OF THE COURT Chief Judge Kaye. A defendant’s State constitutional right to counsel "indelibly attaches” upon actual representation in a criminal matter. *372 The question before us on this appeal — where defendant’s right to counsel unquestionably attached by virtue of counsel’s representation of him in the matter at issue — is what indelible a…

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