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RIGHT TO TESTIFY BEFORE A GRAND JURY IS NOT A RIGHT RESERVED TO A DEFENDANT, IT IS A STRATEGIC DECISION TO BE MADE BY COUNSEL.

The First Department, in affirming defendant’s conviction, noted that defendant was not deprived of a right to testify before the grand jury when his attorney, against defendant’s wishes, withdrew the notice of intent to testify. The right to testify before the grand jury is not among the rights reserved to a defendant:

 

The court properly denied defendant’s motion to dismiss the indictment, made on the ground that he was deprived of his right to testify before the grand jury when, against defendant’s wishes, his counsel withdrew defendant’s notice of intent to testify. We decline to revisit our prior holdings … that the right to testify before the grand jury is not among the rights reserved to a defendant, but is among the rights whose exercise is a strategic decision requiring “the expert judgment of counsel” … . People v Cintron, 2016 NY Slip Op 00618, 1st Dept 2-2-16

 

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