[Download] "People State New York v. Melvin Morales" by Court of Appeals of New York # eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: People State New York v. Melvin Morales
- Author : Court of Appeals of New York
- Release Date : January 14, 1977
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 63 KB
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[42 N.Y.2d 129 Page 131] This case is here for the second time. In the early morning hours of October 4, 1964, Addie Brown was viciously stabbed to death in the elevator of her Bronx County apartment building. There were no eyewitnesses to the murder and an extensive police investigation failed to uncover any direct evidence as to the identity of the killer. Yet the police did learn that Melvin Morales, a known narcotics addict, had frequented the building, had been inside the building at the time of the homicide, and had not been seen since the murder. Morales' mother was a tenant in the building and Morales sojourned with her from time to time. Further, the building was the scene of frequent narcotics activity in which Morales allegedly participated. The police attempted to contact Morales through his mother. On October 13, 1964, nine days after the killing, Mrs. Morales received a telephone call from her son. She informed him that the police desired to question him. Morales agreed to appear at his mother's beauty parlor, her place of business. The police, who had seen previous efforts to contact Morales through his mother fail, had staked [42 N.Y.2d 129 Page 132]