PEOPLE v. DE LEON


77 Misc.2d 969 (1974)

The People of the State of New York, Plaintiff, v. Jose De Leon, Raul Vega-Torres, Willie Rodriguez and George Rivera, Defendants.

Criminal Court of the City of New York, Kings County.

March 8, 1974


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William Gallagher, Cornelia Chubb and Freda S. Nisenewitz for defendants. Eugene Gold, District Attorney (Eric Bjorneby of counsel), for plaintiff.


M. MARVIN BERGER, J.

This case presents a novel question: Must defendants, charged with the commission of the same crime, be represented by separate attorneys before a court may accept identical guilty pleas from each defendant?

May such a plea be accepted, in the face of the possibility that if each defendant had his own lawyer, his counsel might have advised him of the possibility of inculpating his...

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