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PEOPLE v. BAILEY

21 N.Y.2d 588 (1968)

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Granville Bailey, Appellant. The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Edwin J. Leisen, Appellant. The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Howard Russell McCraw, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided April 10, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Jeffrey Weisenfeld and Anthony F. Marra for appellant in the first above-entitled action.

Aaron E. Koota, District Attorney of Kings County (Aaron Nussbaum of counsel), for respondent in the first above-entitled action.

Francis J. Valentino, James J. McDonough, Matthew Muraskin and Jeffrey Holland for appellant in the second above-entitled action.

William Cahn, District Attorney of Nassau County (Henry P. DeVine of counsel), for respondent in the second above-entitled action.

Matthew Muraskin, James J. McDonough and Francis J. Valentino for appellant in the third above-entitled action.

William Cahn, District Attorney of Nassau County (Henry P. DeVine of counsel), for respondent in the third above-entitled action.

Chief Judge FULD and Judges BURKE, SCILEPPI, BERGAN, BREITEL and JASEN concur.

KEATING, J.

The primary issue presented by these three appeals is whether the defendants, who were sentenced to one day to life for various sex offenses, were entitled to a hearing prior to the imposition of sentence. The resolution of this issue depends in turn upon the applicability of the recent Supreme Court decision in Specht v. Patterson (386 U.S. 605 [1967]) in which...

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