Case ID: ny-2d_10/html/0748-02.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Harry Lanza, Appellant.
    Submitted June 7, 1961;
    decided July 7, 1961.
   Motion to amend remittitur granted. Return of remittitur requested and, when returned, it will be amended by adding thereto the following: Upon the appeal herein there was presented and necessarily passed upon a question under the Constitution of the United States, viz.: Defendant argued that the imposition of penal sanctions for his refusal to answer certain questions deprived him of liberty without due process of law in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment. The Court of Appeals held that defendant’s constitutional rights were not violated. [See 9 N Y 2d 895.]