Case Name: In the Matter of Eugene Gold, as District Attorney of Kings County, Respondent, v. J. Irwin Shapiro, as Associate Justice of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the Second Judicial Department, Respondent, and Walfredo Gonzalez, Appellant
Court: New York Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1978-10-19
Citations: 45 N.Y.2d 849
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of Eugene Gold, as District Attorney of Kings County, Respondent, v J. Irwin Shapiro, as Associate Justice of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the Second Judicial Department, Respondent, and Walfredo Gonzalez, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Reports
Volume: 45
Pages: 849–851

Head Matter:
In the Matter of Eugene Gold, as District Attorney of Kings County, Respondent, v J. Irwin Shapiro, as Associate Justice of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the Second Judicial Department, Respondent, and Walfredo Gonzalez, Appellant.
Argued September 13, 1978;
decided October 19, 1978
APPEARANCES OF COUNSEL
Carol Berkman and William E. Hellerstein for appellant.
Eugene Gold, District Attorney (Richard A. Finkel of counsel), respondent pro se.
Richard Emery for New York Civil Liberties Union, amicus curiae.
Louis J. Lefkowitz, Attorney-General (Samuel A. Hirshowitz and Gerald J. Ryan of counsel), in his statutory capacity pursuant to section 71 of the Executive Law.

Opinion:
OPINION OF THE COURT
Judgment affirmed, without costs, on the opinion by Mr. Justice Samuel Rabin at the Appellate Division (62 AD2d 62).
Concur: Chief Judge Breitel and Judges Jasen, Gabrielli, Jones, Wachtler, Fuchsberg and Cooke.