People v. Ohlstein
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Per curiam
Irving Ohlstein and Lloyd Kurzman were indicted for the murder of Robert Newmark. Ohlstein, after a jury trial, was convicted of the crime of murder; Kurzman was acquitted.
The key testimony presented by the prosecution was through the mouths of witnesses declared by the trial court to have been accomplices as a matter of law. The prime issue on this appeal is whether the prosecution presented corroborative evidence of that accomplice testimony which tended to connect the defendant with the commission of the crime (CPL 60.22, subd 1).
The victim, Robert Newmark, was found dead in the bedroom of…
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