Legal Opinion
People v. Walter
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided February 21, 1986PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Pine, J.
Defendant appeals his conviction of escape in the second degree pursuant to Penal Law § 205.10 (1) on the sole ground that no crime was committed because the Forensic Unit of the Hutchings Psychiatric Center in Syracuse is not a detention facility within the meaning of Penal Law § 205.00 (1). We affirm.
Defendant had been committed to the Forensic Unit at Hutchings in 1980, pursuant to CPL 330.20, following a CPL 220.15 plea that he was not responsible by reason of mental disease or defect for manslaughter in the first degree and other crimes with which he had been…
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