United States Second Circuit

A court may not force a defendant in a criminal case to settle on just one of his lawyers to examine all the witnesses, but the trial judge's error was not a structural error that contaminated the entire trial.

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/13/2001
• Decided 06/08/2001
• Published 06/08/2001

Judges

• McLAUGHLIN, Circuit Judge:, Before McLAUGHLIN, SOTOMAYOR, Circuit Judges, and BERTELSMAN, District Judge.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Frank J. Loss,Legal Aid Society, New York, NY, for Petitioner-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Elizabeth F. Bernhardt, District Attorney's Office Bronx County, Bronx, NY, for Respondents-Appellees.