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PEOPLE v. WILLIAMS

35 N.Y.2d 783 (1974)

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Earl Williams and Regino Serrano, Appellants.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided November 14, 1974.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward A. Meilman and Robert Kasanof for Earl Williams, appellant.

Sidney H. Stein and Robert L. Laufer for Regino Serrano, appellant.

Mario Merola, District Attorney (Daniel J. Sullivan of counsel), for respondent.

Chief Judge BREITEL and Judges GABRIELLI, JONES, WACHTLER, RABIN and STEVENS concur in memorandum; Judge JASEN dissents and votes to affirm in a separate opinion.

MEMORANDUM.

To sustain a conviction based exclusively on circumstantial evidence the facts from which the inference of the defendant's guilt is drawn must be established with certainty, must be inconsistent with his innocence and must exclude to a moral certainty every other reasonable hypothesis (Matter of Cleague, 22 N.Y.2d 363, 365-366). We agree with the conclusion of the dissenter...

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