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PEO EX REL STRACHAN v. COLON

77 N.Y.2d 499 (1991)

The People of the State of New York ex rel. Leroy Strachan, Appellant, v. Joseph Colon, as Warden of the Manhattan House of Detention, Respondent.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided April 4, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William M. Kunstler and Ronald L. Kuby for appellant.

Robert M. Morgenthau, District Attorney (Alex V. Hernandez and Donald J. Siewert of counsel), for respondent.

Chief Judge WACHTLER and Judges SIMONS, KAYE, ALEXANDER, TITONE and HANCOCK, JR., concur.

BELLACOSA, J.

Leroy Strachan was indicted in March 1990 by the State of Florida for murder in the first degree, a capital offense, for the killing of Police Officer John Milledge in Miami in 1946. At the time of the crime, Strachan was 17 years of age. In March 1990, the Governor of Florida requested that Strachan be extradited from New York to Florida for trial. New...

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