It hardly seems 50 years since the late H. Richard Uviller, then chief of appeals under Manhattan District Attorney Frank Hogan, and the undersigned, then attorney in charge of Legal Aid Appeals, met in Judge Stanley Fuld’s chambers to thrash out New York’s response to the then just decided U.S. Supreme Court decision in Jackson v Denno.1
Because of the hundreds of cases that would be affected, it was imperative that the many issues be addressed immediately and authoritatively by the Court of Appeals. People v Huntley,2 a Legal Aid case upon which several years earlier Fuld had denied leave to appeal, was selected as the best case with a preserved issue for court of appeals review.
