New York Court of Appeals Roundup: Court Decides Numerous Criminal Appeals and Discusses FOIL Requests
In their monthly column in the New York Law Journal, Roy Reardon and Mary Elizabeth McGarry discuss two criminal cases, one concerning the admission of testimony from an expert on eyewitness identification and the other concerning whether a deportee has a right to pursue the appeal of his conviction. At the end of this column they also note briefly some of the other criminal decisions handed down in October 2011. In addition, they discuss an opinion in a matter that arose under the Freedom of Information Law that is notable for the Court's plea to agencies to respond to requests under the statute with both the purpose of the law and efficiency in mind.