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NO EVIDENCE JURY COULD SEE ORANGE CORRECTIONS DEPARTMENT PANTS WORN BY DEFENDANT ON THE FIRST DAY OF TRIAL, DEFENDANT NOT DENIED A FAIR TRIAL.

The Court of Appeals determined the fact that defendant appeared on the first day of the trial wearing orange sweat pants issued by the department of corrections did not require reversal. There was no evidence the jury could see the defendant's legs:

Under the circumstances described here by the trial judge on the record, there is no merit to defendant's contention that he was denied a fair trial because he was compelled to appear before the jury in correctional garb. We have previously held that “to require [a defendant] to appear in convict's attire — a continuing visual communication to the jury — is to deny” the defendant the right to appear “with the dignity and self-respect of a free and innocent” person … , consistent with the Supreme Court's holding that “[t]he State cannot, consistently with the Fourteenth Amendment, compel an accused to stand trial before a jury while dressed in identifiable prison clothes” … . These concerns are not implicated here, however, where there is no evidence that defendant's orange correctional pants were visible to the jury and the clothing that was visible to the jury was clearly not identifiable as correctional garb … . People v Then, 2017 NY Slip Op 01021, CtApp 2-9-17

CRIMINAL LAW (NO EVIDENCE JURY COULD SEE ORANGE CORRECTIONS DEPARTMENT PANTS WORN BY DEFENDANT ON THE FIRST DAY OF TRIAL, DEFENDANT NOT DENIED A FAIR TRIAL)/PRISON CLOTHES (CRIMINAL LAW, (NO EVIDENCE JURY COULD SEE ORANGE CORRECTIONS DEPARTMENT PANTS WORN BY DEFENDANT ON THE FIRST DAY OF TRIAL, DEFENDANT NOT DENIED A FAIR TRIAL)

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