People v. Lipsky

— Judgment unanimously reversed, on the law and facts, and indictment dismissed. Memorandum: Defendant was convicted of murder, second degree, based primarily on his confession, given in Utah to a probation officer and a psychiatric social worker, to killing Mary Robinson by strangling her in Rochester, New York on June 14, 1976. The victim’s body was never found and there was no direct proof of her death or that defendant caused it. The trial court set aside the verdict and dismissed the indictment on the ground that there was insufficient proof outside the confession that the offense…