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PEOPLE v. MORALES

42 N.Y.2d 129 (1977)

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Melvin Morales, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided June 14, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph A. Monica for appellant.

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

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

JASEN, J.

This case is here for the second time. In the early morning hours of October 4, 1964, Addie Brown was viciously stabbed to death in the elevator of her Bronx County apartment building. There were no eyewitnesses to the murder and an extensive police investigation failed to uncover any direct evidence as to the identity of the killer. Yet the police did learn that Melvin Morales, a known narcotics addict...

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