PEOPLE v. SMITH

Leave to Appeal Granted March 7, 1997:

The issues are limited to (1) whether the trial judge erred by admitting testimony about statements that the complainant made to his mother hours after the alleged sexual assault and, if so, whether the error was harmless, and (2) whether the defendant was denied his constitutional right to effective assistance of counsel where, at the time of the trial, his attorney had been charged with a criminal offense in the same county.

Court of Appeals No. 148757.