People v. Huntley

Chief Judge Desmond.

This is one of the cases in which we are under compulsion to work out—without benefit of controlling decision, statute or rule — an appropriate procedure for providing the separate hearing mandated by Jackson v. Denno (378 U. S. 368 [1964]) as to voluntariness of a confession received in evidence against a defendant at his trial. For the present and tentatively we set out some of the rules to be applied in these matters, pending further development by the courts or by the Legislature, or both.

*75In 1960 appellant Huntley was, after trial in the former Court of General…