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PEOPLE v. AGRON

10 N.Y.2d 130 (1961)

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Salvatore Agron and Louis Antonio Hernandez, Appellants.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided July 7, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rudolph Stand for Salvatore Agron, appellant.

James J. Hanrahan and Christy Lattarulo for Louis Antonio Hernandez, appellant.

Frank S. Hogan, District Attorney (Richard G. Denzer and Robert Popper of counsel), for respondent.

Sergio A. Peña, Felix Ochoteco, Jr., Benjamin Rodriguez and Jerome Count for Puerto Rican Bar Association, amicus curiæ.

Judges DYE, FULD, VAN VOORHIS, BURKE and FOSTER concur with Judge FROESSEL; Chief Judge DESMOND dissents in a separate opinion.

FROESSEL, J.

Shortly after midnight on August 30, 1959, a small group of unarmed teenagers were brutally assaulted by a gang of approximately 15 young men as the former were sitting in a public playground near their homes. During the course of the wholly unprovoked assault, three boys were viciously stabbed by appellant Agron. Two of the victims, Young and Krzesinski, died as a result of the extremely deep stab...

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