LA ROCCA v. LANE


77 Misc.2d 123 (1974)

Vincent La Rocca, Petitioner, v. Morgan Lane, as a Judge of the Criminal Court of the City of New York, Respondent.

Supreme Court, Criminal Term, Kings County.

March 11, 1974


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William Gallagher, Randolph N. Jonakait and Robert Hermann for petitioner. Louis J. Lefkowitz, Attorney-General (Robert S. Hammer of counsel), for respondent.


GUY MANGANO, J.

This is an article 78 proceeding to review an order of a lower court Judge barring petitioner, while wearing his clerical collar as an ordained Roman Catholic priest, from representing a defendant in the selection of a jury and in the trial of a criminal proceeding. The basis of the lower court order is that "there would be a substantial danger that jurors would draw impermissible inferences...

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