People v. Heaney

The judgment of conviction should be reversed and a new trial directed based upon prejudicial evidentiary errors which admitted inflammatory testimony. An appendix of relevant trial testimony is furnished which speaks for itself.

The complainant wife was an Associate Producer of 60 Minutes for CBS and the defendant husband was a New York attorney who were litigating a divorce and custody proceeding in Supreme Court, New York County, when the two incidents occurred. Criticism of prosecuting this case in the Criminal Court was expressed by a Criminal Court Judge at a preliminary hearing.1

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