Legal Opinion
Buchalter v. New York
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 1, 1943No. Nos. 606, 610, 619PublishedCited by 137 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Robeets
The petitioners were convicted of first degree murder in the County Court of Kings County, New York, after a trial lasting over nine weeks. The printed record consists of over twelve thousand pages. The judgments were affirmed by the Court of Appeals of the State. Numerous errors were there assigned. Four opinions were written, two of which dissented from the judgments of affirmance, as to which the court divided four to three. In his concurring opinion the Chief Judge said that he agreed with one of the dissenting opinions that errors and defects occurred in the trial.which could not be…
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3Cited by137 opinions
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