PEOPLE v. HECKER

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Center for Appellate Litigation, New York City ( Robert S. Dean of counsel), for appellant in the first above-entitled action.

Cyrus R. Vance, Jr. , District Attorney, New York City ( Ellen Stanfield Friedman and Sylvia Wertheimer of counsel), for respondent in the first above-entitled action.

Peluso & Touger, LLP, New York City ( David Touger of counsel), for appellant in the second above-entitled action.

Cyrus R. Vance, Jr. , District Attorney, New York City ( Amyjane Rettew of counsel), for respondent in the second above-entitled action.

Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, New York City ( Meredith L. Turner of counsel) and Office of the Appellate Defender ( Richard M. Greenberg and Daniel A. Warshawsky of counsel) for appellant in the third above-entitled action.

Cyrus R. Vance, Jr. , District Attorney, New York City ( Jared Wolkowitz , Amyjane Rettew and Gina Mignola of counsel), for respondent in the third above-entitled action.

Jamel Black , appellant pro se in the fourth above-entitled action.

William G. Kastin , New York City, and Lynn W.L. Fahey for appellant in the fourth above-entitled action.

Charles J. Hynes , District Attorney, Brooklyn ( Seth M. Lieberman , Leonard Joblove and Victor Barall of counsel), for respondent in the fourth above-entitled action.

New York Civil Liberties Union Foundation, New York City ( Andrew L. Kalloch , Corey Stoughton and Arthur Eisenberg of counsel), and Association of the Bar of the City of New York ( Karen A. Newirth of counsel) for New York Civil Liberties Union and another, amici curiae in the fourth above-entitled action.

Chief Judge LIPPMAN and Judges GRAFFEO, READ, SMITH, PIGOTT and JONES concur with Judge CIPARICK; Judge SMITH concurs in a separate opinion in which Judge PIGOTT concurs.