Case ID: ad2d_158/html/0437-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The People of the State of New York ex rel. Thomas R. Kitchen, Appellant, v Janice White, as Superintendent of Manhattan House of Detention, Respondent.
   After a bench trial, appellant was convicted of criminal possession of a weapon, in the third degree and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree. He thereafter brought a petition for a writ of habeas corpus claiming that he had been denied his statutory right to testify before the Grand Jury. A writ of habeas corpus is an inappropriate method to review issues which may be raised on direct appeal. (People ex rel. Goss v Smith, 69 NY2d 727.) Concur— Sullivan, J. P., Carro, Rosenberger, Ellerin and Smith, JJ.