Case Name: The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Joseph De Grandis et al., Defendants, and Ernest Zundel, Appellant
Court: New York Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1970-07-01
Citations: 27 N.Y.2d 674
Docket Number: 
Parties: The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Joseph De Grandis et al., Defendants, and Ernest Zundel, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Reports
Volume: 27
Pages: 674–675

Head Matter:
The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Joseph De Grandis et al., Defendants, and Ernest Zundel, Appellant.
Argued June 1, 1970;
decided July 1, 1970.
Donald J. Farinacci, James J. McDonough and Matthew Muraskin for appellant.
William Cahn, District Attorney (Henry P. DeVine of counsel), for respondent.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
In a habeas corpus proceeding brought by a codefendant of the appellant Zundel, the United 'States Supreme Court held that numerous books and other papers received upon the trial (in 1960) had been unconstitutionally seized and should not have been admitted in evidence. (See Mancusi v. De Forte, 392 U. S. 364, affg. United States ex rel. De Forte v. Mancusi, 379 F. 2d 897.) Since, on the record before us, it is impossible to say—as we must were we to affirm—that the receipt of such illegally obtained evidence was ' ' harmless beyond a reasonable doubt" (Chapman v. California, 386 U. S. 18, 24; see, also, Harrington v. California, 395 U. S. 250, 251-252), the appellant's conviction must be reversed and the case remitted to the County Court of Nassau County for a new trial.
The judgment of conviction should be reversed and a new trial ordered.
Chief Judge Fuld and Judges Burke, Scileppi, Bergan, Breitel, Jasen and Gibson concur in Per Curiam opinion.
Upon reargument by defendant Zundel: Judgment as to defendant Zundel reversed and a new trial ordered.