Court Opinion

ID: 5747562
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-12 16:51:53.612807+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:41:11.974524
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In a coram nobis proceeding, defendant appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Kings County, dated December 4, 1962, which denied after a hearing his application to vacate a judgment of the former County Court, Kings County, rendered June 4, 1947 after a jury trial, convicting him of robbery in the first degree, and sentencing him as a second felony offender to serve a term of 30 to 60 years. The judgment of conviction was previously affirmed by this court (272 App. Div. 1061; motion for leave to appeal to the Court of Appeals denied, December 9, 1947 [Fuld, J.]). Order affirmed. We are of the opinion that the rule enunciated in People v. Mangi (10 N Y 2d 86) is distinguishable from this case because at the trial of this defendant it was his own counsel who prevented the defendant’s accomplice, the witness Daly, from disclosing all the facts. This disclosure, if permitted, might have revealed not only that the prosecutor had told Daly that if he testified as a People’s witness his co-operation would be called to the court’s attention at his sentencing, but also that this defendant was implicated in another crime or crimes. Beldock, P. J., Kleinfeld, Christ, Hill and Rabin, JJ., concur.