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PEOPLE v. MOLL

21 N.Y.2d 706 (1967)

The People of the State of New York, Respondent-Appellant, v. Robert Moll, Appellant, and William Stanbridge and John Closter, Appellants-Respondents.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided December 29, 1967.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas R. Newman for Robert Moll, appellant.

Frank A. Lopez and Theodore Rosenberg for William Stanbridge, appellant-respondent.

Martin Fogelman for John Closter, appellant-respondent.

William Cahn, District Attorney (Henry P. DeVine of counsel), for respondent-appellant.

Concur: Judges VAN VOORHIS, SCILEPPI, BERGAN, KEATING and BREITEL. Judge BURKE dissents and votes to reverse and order new trials in the following opinion in which Chief Judge FULD concurs.

Judgments affirmed.

BURKE, J. (dissenting).

We are unable to agree to affirmance of these defendants' convictions. This is the sort of case where feelings run high — any case involving the vicious killing of a police officer is bound to produce such feelings. But it is just this sort of case that demands scrupulous care on the part of the authorities to prevent the sort of claims that are now made here by these defendants. In the instant...

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