Legal Opinion
People v. Boone
New York Court of Appeals
Decided July 2, 1968PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtScileppi, J.
The defendants, Boone and Brandon, appeal from judgments of the Appellate Division, First Department, which affirmed judgments of the Supreme Court, New York County, convicting each of the defendants of murder in the first degree and sentencing them to life imprisonment.
The defendants were found guilty of murdering Thomas Brooks whose bound and gagged body was discovered in his apartment by his son Daniel on February 20, 1965. According to medical testimony, Mr. Brooks had died two days earlier; death was caused by fractures of the mandible (jaw bone), hyoid bone (a bone in the vicinity of…
2Cases cited10 opinions
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- Bruton v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Pointer v. TexasSupreme Court of the United States · 1965
- Johnson v. New JerseySupreme Court of the United States · 1966
- Douglas v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1965
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3Cited by21 opinions
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- People v. CharlesNew York Court of Appeals · 1991
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