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DEFENDANT’S AGGRAVATED CRUELTY TO ANIMALS CONVICTION AFFIRMED; JUSTIFICATION DEFENSE APPLIES ONLY TO PERSONS, NOT ANIMALS; THE PRESENTENCE INTERVIEW AT THE PROBATION DEPARTMENT IS NOT A CRITICAL STAGE OF THE PROCEEDING REQUIRING THE PRESENCE OF DEFENDANT’S ATTORNEY (THIRD DEPT).

The Third Department affirmed defendant’s conviction of aggravated cruelty to animals (Agriculture and Markets Law 353-a) noting that the justification defense (on which the jury was instructed) applies only to persons, not animals. The defendant unsuccessfully argued the presentence report should have been ignored because his attorney was not present during the interview with the Probation Department:

Defendant contends that the court should have disregarded the report in its entirety and ordered a new one because the Probation Department did not abide by counsel’s request to be present for the presentence interview. “New York’s right to counsel applies to every critical stage of the criminal proceeding” … . However, in light of the nonadversarial nature of a routine presentence interview by a probation officer, courts have held that such an interview does not constitute a critical stage of the proceedings … . Therefore, defendant did not have a right to have counsel present during that interview. In any event, County Court granted defendant’s request to strike the portion of the report containing defendant’s statement related to this crime. People v Brinkley, 2019 NY Slip Op 05728, Third Dept 7-18-19

 

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