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PEOPLE v. KERN

149 A.D.2d 187 (1989)

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Scott Kern, Jason Ladone and Jon Lester, Appellants

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

July 31, 1989

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hoffman & Pollok (John L. Pollok, Charles L. Weintraub, Edward Gasthalter, Susan C. Wolfe and Michael Gold of counsel), for appellants.

Charles J. Hynes, Deputy Attorney-General (Arthur Weinstein, Matthew S. Greenberg, Hillel Hoffman and Virginia Modest of counsel), for respondent.

Caesar D. Cirigliano (Robert M. Baum, Arnold S. Cohen and Laura J. Miller of counsel; Gail Cagney and Harry Zirlin on the brief), for Legal Aid Society, amicus curiae.

MANGANO, BROWN, KOOPER and SPATT, JJ., concur.

MOLLEN, P. J.

This appeal arises out of the highly publicized confrontation between a group of white teen-agers and three black men during the early morning hours of December 20, 1986, in Howard Beach, Queens County, which resulted in the death of one of the black men, Michael Griffith and the severe beating of his companion, Cedric Sandiford. The three defendants involved in this appeal, Scott Kern, Jon Lester...

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