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BUCHALTER v. NEW YORK

No. 606.

319 U.S. 427 (1943)

63 S.Ct. 1129

87 L.Ed. 1492

BUCHALTER v. NEW YORK.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 1, 1943.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. Arthur Garfield Hays, Sydney Rosenthal, I. Maurice Wormser, John Schulman, and J. Bertram Wegman, with whom Messrs. Gerald Weatherly and Benj. J. Jacobson were on the brief, for petitioners.

Mr. Solomon A. Klein, with whom Messrs. Thomas Cradock Hughes, Henry J. Walsh, and Edward H. Levine were on the brief, for respondent.

MR. JUSTICE ROBERTS delivered the opinion of the Court.

The petitioners were convicted of first degree murder in the County Court of Kings County, New York, after a trial lasting over nine weeks. The printed record consists of over twelve thousand pages. The judgments were affirmed by the Court of Appeals of the State.1 Numerous errors were there assigned. Four opinions were written, two of which dissented from the judgments of affirmance...

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