PEOPLE v. CRIMMINS


36 N.Y.2d 230 (1975)

The People of the State of New York, Appellant, v. Alice Crimmins, Respondent.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided February 25, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nicholas Ferraro, District Attorney (Thomas A. Duffy, Jr. and Barry Alan Schwartz of counsel), for appellant.

William M. Erlbaum, Herbert A. Lyon and Charles Wender for respondent.

Chief Judge BREITEL and Judges JASEN, GABRIELLI and WACHTLER concur with Judge JONES; Judge COOKE concurs in part and dissents in part and votes to affirm in a separate opinion in which Judge FUCHSBERG concurs.


JONES, J.

On this appeal we are called on principally to consider the doctrine of harmless error as applied to errors which occurred on defendant's second trial. In this case a mother was charged with criminal responsibility in connection with the deaths of her son and her daughter. On her first trial defendant was charged only with the death of the daughter and was convicted of manslaughter. On appeal this conviction...

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