UNITED STATES EX REL. COLEMAN v. DENNO

No. 350, Docket 28643.

330 F.2d 441 (1964)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. David COLEMAN, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Wilfred L. DENNO and Edward S. Silver, Respondents-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.

Decided April 6, 1964.

Certiorari Denied June 22, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jack L. Kroner, New York City (Stanley J. Levy, Frederick C. Stern and Martin Garbus, New York City, on the brief), for petitioner-appellant.

William I. Siegel, Asst. Dist. Atty., Kings County, Brooklyn, N. Y. (Edward S. Silver, Dist. Atty., Kings County, and Mortimer Sattler, New York City, on the brief), for respondents-appellees.

Before LUMBARD, Chief Judge, SMITH, Circuit Judge, and LEVET, District Judge.


Certiorari Denied June 22, 1964. See 84 S.Ct. 1938.

PER CURIAM:

It was well within the province of the New York Courts to determine whether the prosecutor's comments in summation, taken in the light of defense counsel's argument and the careful and categorical instructions of the trial judge, were so prejudicial to the defendant as to require a new trial of the charges which resulted in his conviction for murder in Kings County in 1960. For the reasons given...

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