Case ID: misc2d_88/html/0177-02.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Joseph Howard Levinsohn, Appellant.
    Supreme Court, Appellate Term, Second Department,
    May 28, 1976
    
      
      Phillips, Nizer, Benjamin, Krim & Ballon (Louis Nizer, Gerald Phillips and William F Reilly of counsel), for appellant. Henry F. O’Brien, District Attorney (Ronald E. Lipetz of counsel), for respondent.
   Memorandum. Judgment of conviction is unanimously reversed on the law and information dismissed. '

The proof submitted by the People was insufficient to establish the guilt of the defendant beyond a reasonable doubt. We do not pass on the question whether corroboration of the infant’s testimony was required, since we find under all the circumstances that there was not a scintilla of "objective verification” of the infant’s testimony nor was the proof of guilt "clear and convincing” (People v Oyola, 6 NY2d 259, 261, 263).

Concur: Glickman, P. J., Pittoni and Silberman, JJ.