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LA ROCCA v. LANE

47 A.D.2d 243 (1975)

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

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Second Department.

April 7, 1975

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Louis J. Lefkowitz, Attorney-General (Robert S. Hammer and Samuel A. Hirshowitz of counsel), for appellant.

William Gallagher and Mario Matthew Cuomo (Eric A. Seiff, Pierce Gerety, Jr., and John E. H. Stackhouse of counsel), for respondent.

Aaron Nussbaum for Kings County Criminal Bar Association, Inc., amicus curiae.

Ernest J. Bertolotti (Michael T. Sullivan, John E. Pearson, Michael S. O'Rourke, Scott E. Mollen and Martin J. Kilkeary of counsel), for Ad Hoc Committee for the Defense of Clerical Rights, amicus curiae.

MARTUSCELLO and LATHAM, JJ., concur with HOPKINS, ACTING P. J.; SHAPIRO, J., dissents and votes to affirm the judgment, with an opinion.

HOPKINS, Acting P. J.

The petitioner has been an ordained Roman Catholic priest for 25 years. He was admitted to the Bar in 1973. He is employed as an attorney by the Legal Aid Society and was assigned to represent Cecilia Daniels, a defendant under criminal charges in the Criminal Court of the City of New York. He appeared before the court wearing his clerical collar, prepared to try the case before a jury on...

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