People v. Vizzini

“ For five and a half hours throughout the city yesterday, desperate civilians and some police *1041officers sounded alarms when fires broke out in their neighborhoods, then lugged their own hoses, broke windows in smoke-filled buildings and prayed anxiously that the small force of nonstriking firemen could get to the fires in time.” (New York Times, Nov. 7, 1973.)

Defendants are the president and two other members of the executive board of the Uniformed Firefighters Association (UFA). They have been indicted for reckless endangerment in the second degree and related crimes, arising from their role…