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UNITED STATES EX REL. NEGRON v. STATE OF NEW YORK

No. 112, Docket 34885.

434 F.2d 386 (1970)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Rogelio Nieves NEGRON, Petitioner-Appellee, v. The STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided October 15, 1970.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hillel Hoffman, Asst. Atty. Gen. (Louis J. Lefkowitz, Atty. Gen., State of N. Y., and Samuel A. Hirshowitz, First Asst. Atty. Gen., on the brief), for respondent-appellant.

Robert Hermann, New York City (Milton Adler, The Legal Aid Society, New York City, on the brief), for petitioner-appellee.

Before LUMBARD, Chief Judge, CLARK, Associate Justice and KAUFMAN, Circuit Judge.

IRVING R. KAUFMAN, Circuit Judge:

We affirmed in open court the granting of Negron's petition for a writ of habeas corpus by Judge Bartels. Because the issue decided by us will have important precedential value, we now set forth the reasons for our holding that the lack of adequate translation for Negron of those portions of his 1967 Suffolk County murder trial which were conducted in English rendered the trial constitutionally infirm.

Negron, a native of...

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