PEOPLE v. GUILFORD

No. 103.

21 N.Y.3d 205 (2013)

991 N.E.2d 204

969 N.Y.S.2d 430

2013 NY Slip Op 3932

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. JAMES E. GUILFORD, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of New York.

Decided June 4, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hiscock Legal Aid Society, Syracuse ( Piotr Banasiak of counsel), for appellant.

William J. Fitzpatrick , District Attorney, Syracuse ( James P. Maxwell and Victoria M. White of counsel), for respondent.


OPINION OF THE COURT

Chief Judge LIPPMAN.

Defendant appeals from an order of the Appellate Division affirming a judgment convicting him of murder in the second degree. The uncontested circumstance at the root of this appeal is that, before confessing to a detective that he had killed his former paramour, Ms. Nugent, defendant was subjected to a custodial interrogation lasting 49½ hours. It is not now suggested that this evidently uniquely lengthy interrogation...

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