People v. Duffy

Appeal by defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Suffolk County, rendered November 15, 1963 after a jury trial, convicting him of robbery in the first degree and imposing sentence. Judgment reversed on the law and a new trial granted. No questions of fact were considered. In our opinion, it was error to admit into evidence the defendant’s alleged statement as a purported confession by him. After a detective had questioned the defendant and after the detective had made a handwritten statement of his conversation with him, the statement was typewritten. This typewritten statement was…