People v. Virga

The inspiration that has seemingly induced the inauguration of this formal coram nobis application in an attack on the judgment of conviction herein as being founded in part on alleged illegal admissions, stems from the ruling made by the Court of Appeals in People v. Huntley (15 N Y 2d 72) as the result of the holding in Jackson v. Denno (378 U. S. 368) with regard to the validity of the confessions by a defendant as a confitens reus.

This appellate ruling now forms the root of the probe into the facts of this case as pertains to the statement of admissions made by defendant. The vital…