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People v. Griffin

16 N.Y.2d 508 Court N.Y. Decision date 1965-04-22 English

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p. 508
The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Charles Griffin, Appellant.
Argued March 18, 1965;
decided April 22, 1965.
Kalman Finkel and Anthony F. Marra for appellant.
Frank S. Hogan, District Attorney (H. Richard Uviller of counsel), for respondent.
p. 509
Memorandum : We hold that nothing in Jackson v. Denno ( 378 U. S. 368 ) or People v. Huntley ( 15 N Y 2d 72 ) requires this court to overrule our decision in People v. Nicholson ( 11 N Y 2d 1067 ) whose holding and reasoning we now approve. (See People v. Rogers, 15 N Y 2d 690 .) The defendant, therefore, is not now entitled to a hearing before the trial court on the issue of the voluntariness of his confession. Nor has any argument been advanced to justify or warrant any change or modification of our conclusion, in People v. Howard ( 12 N Y 2d 65 , 68-69), that retroactive effect is not to be accorded to decisions of this court respecting right to counsel. (See, also, People v. Rogers, 15 N Y 2d 690 , supra.)

The order appealed from should be affirmed.

Chief Judge Desmond and Judges Dye, Fuld, Van Voorhis, Burke, Scileppi and Bergan concur.

Order affirmed.

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