PEOPLE v. RUPPERT


26 N.Y.2d 437 (1970)

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Thomas Alfred Ruppert, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided May 13, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eleanor Jackson Piel for appellant.

Carl A. Vergari, District Attorney (James J. Duggan and B. Anthony Morosco of counsel), for respondent.

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


GIBSON, J.

On December 20, 1965, the defendant, a boy 16 years old, with a history of minor mental disturbance, was employed in the Jewish Community Center in Yonkers; and on that day there occurred in the center a fire that took 12 lives. Defendant has been convicted of arson causing the fire and of the murder of those whose deaths ensued.

The central issue concerns a confession which defendant gave...

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