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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