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COUNTY COURT SHOULD NOT HAVE IMPANELED AN ANONYMOUS JURY (CT APP).

The Court of Appeals affirmed the appellate division, holding that County Court should not have empaneled an anonymous jury:

The trial court committed reversible error by empaneling an anonymous jury. Assuming that trial courts may, under certain circumstances, anonymize jurors, here County Court acted without any factual predicate for the extraordinary procedure. Indeed, the trial court expressly based its decision to empanel an anonymous jury on anecdotal accounts from jurors in unrelated cases and, then, exacerbated the error by taking “no steps to lessen the potential prejudice” to defendants … . People v Flores, 2018 NY Slip Op 08540, CtApp 12-13-18

 

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