Legal Opinion
People v. Caminito
New York Court of Appeals
Decided January 23, 1958PublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtFuld, J.
Concerned though we are with appeals in two separate cases, one involving Santo Caminito, the other, Charles Noia, we treat them together since they stem from the same prosecution and involve facts common to both.
Caminito, Noia and Frank Bonino were indicted in 1941 for the murder of one Hammeroff. At the trial, the only evidence of guilt consisted of confessions signed by each defendant in which he acknowledged participation in an attempted robbery of Hammeroff terminating in his fatal shooting. Concluding that the confessions were not coerced, as the defendants con*599tended, and that their…
2Cases cited13 opinions
- Matter of Lyons v. GoldsteinNew York Court of Appeals · 1943
- People v. RizzoNew York Court of Appeals · 1927
- Howell v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1949
- People v. NitzbergNew York Court of Appeals · 1943
- People v. . SweeneyNew York Court of Appeals · 1914
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3Cited by25 opinions
- Fay v. NoiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Presnell v. KempCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1988
- United States of America Ex Rel. Charles Noia, Relator-Appellant v. Edwin M. Fay, as Warden of Greenhaven Prison, State of New YorkCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1962
- De Canzio v. KennedyAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1979
- Presnell v. KempCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1988
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