The question to be decided is whether Arnold D. Hechtman, author of the Practice Commentaries in McKinney's Penal Law, and now retired from professional life, is, because of that authorship, ineligible to serve as a criminal trial juror.
The issue arose when Mr. Hechtman was routinely called to jury duty in Kings County and was sent along with 50 other prospective jurors to a Criminal Part where a voir dire was under...
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