MATTER OF UNGAR v. SARAFITE


12 N.Y.2d 1013 (1963)

In the Matter of Sidney J. Ungar, Appellant, v. Joseph A. Sarafite, as Judge of the Court of General Sessions of the County of New York, Respondent. In the Matter of Sidney J. Ungar, Appellant. Joseph A. Sarafite, as Judge of the Court of General Sessions of the County of New York, Respondent.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided February 28, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eve M. Preminger for appellant.

Frank S. Hogan, District Attorney (H. Richard Uviller and Richard R. Lutz of counsel), for respondent.

Rhoda Hendrick Karpatkin for New York Civil Liberties Union, amicus curiæ.

Concur: Chief Judge DESMOND and Judges DYE, FULD, BURKE, FOSTER and SCILEPPI. Judge VAN VOORHIS concurs in result only.


In the first above-entitled proceeding: Order affirmed, without costs. (See Matter of Ungar, decided herewith.) No opinion.

In the second above-entitled proceeding: Order affirmed, without costs. However, we point out that where the alleged contempt consists of the making of charges of wrongdoing by the Trial Judge himself he should, where disposition of the contempt charge can be withheld until after the trial and where it is otherwise practicable, order the...

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