Summary
In Williams we upheld the district court's entry of judgment for compensatory damages based on Williams' malicious prosecution by the City's agents, the police; we reversed, however, the award of punitive damages against the City.
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Argued November 22, 1948
Decided January 6, 1949
Appeal from the Kings County Court, GOLDSTEIN, J.
Edward H. Levine and Jesse P. Griggs for appellant.
John F. Finerty, Herbert M. Levy and Robert Markewich for American Civil Liberties Union, amicus curiae, in support of appellant's position.
Miles F. McDonald, District Attorney ( Solomon A. Klein of counsel), for respondent.
Judgment of conviction affirmed. Upon this appeal there was presented and necessarily passed upon a question under the Constitution of the United States, viz.: the defendant argued that his conviction violated the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States in that the sentence of death was based upon information supplied by witnesses with whom the accused had not been confronted and as to whom he had no opportunity for cross-examination or rebuttal; this court held that the sentence aforesaid did not violate the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States. No opinion.
Concur: LOUGHRAN, Ch. J., LEWIS, CONWAY, DESMOND, DYE and FULD, JJ.