People v Tillmon
2021 NY Slip Op 04849 [197 AD3d 958]
August 26, 2021
Appellate Division, Fourth Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, October 6, 2021


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 The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
v
Justin M. Tillmon, Appellant. (Appeal No. 2.)

David P. Elkovitch, Auburn, for defendant-appellant.

Jon E. Budelmann, District Attorney, Auburn (Christopher T. Valdina of counsel), for respondent.

Appeal from a judgment of the Cayuga County Court (Mark H. Fandrich, A.J.), rendered June 11, 2019. The judgment convicted defendant upon a jury verdict of criminal contempt in the first degree, criminal contempt in the second degree (nine counts) and tampering with a witness in the fourth degree (two counts).

It is hereby ordered that the judgment so appealed from is unanimously reversed on the law and a new trial is granted.

Same memorandum as in People v Tillmon ([appeal No. 1] 197 AD3d 956 [4th Dept 2021]). Present—Peradotto, J.P., Carni, Lindley, Curran and Bannister, JJ.