PEOPLE v. LUCAS


107 Misc.2d 231 (1980)

The People of the State of New York, Plaintiff, v. Frank Lucas, Defendant.

Supreme Court, Trial Term, New York County.

November 19, 1980


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Herald Price Fahringer and John Gross for defendant. Sterling Johnson, Jr., Special Assistant District Attorney (Charles J. Heffernan, Jr., and Michael Gary Hilf of counsel), for plaintiff.


EVE PREMINGER, J.

At issue is the intriguing question whether to admit in evidence the testimony of a witness whose memory was refreshed by hypnosis prior to trial. Defendant moves to preclude Charles Morris, a witness for the prosecution from testifying about a meeting six years earlier during which defendant asked him to witness the final arrangements for a contract murder. Morris' recollection of the details of the alleged meeting was dim until he...

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