Defendant may object to sufficiency of, or deny impeachment

N.Y. Judiciary Law § 419, under Judicial Proceedings For the Removal of Public Officers By Impeachment.

N.Y. Judiciary Law § 419

§ 419. Defendant may object to sufficiency of, or deny impeachment. When the defendant appears, he must answer the articles of impeachment; which he may do, either by objection to their sufficiency, or that of any article therein, or by denying the truth of the same.