PEOPLE v. SANCHEZ


15 N.Y.2d 387 (1965)

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Javier Sanchez, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided April 22, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nancy Carley, Melvin M. Lebetkin and Abraham Werfel for appellant.

Frank D. O'Connor, District Attorney (Benj. J. Jacobson of counsel), for respondent.

Chief Judge DESMOND and Judges DYE, VAN VOORHIS, BURKE and BERGAN concur with Judge FULD; Judge SCILEPPI concurs in result in a separate opinion.


FULD, J.

The defendant Sanchez, convicted of the crime of murder in the first degree, has been sentenced to death, and the principal question presented is whether certain statements made by him to law enforcement officials should have been excluded from evidence at his trial.

The record permits of no doubt that, at about 5:00 P.M. on July 5, 1963, an attorney, previously retained by the defendant, advised...

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