U. N. CONFESSIONS ARE HELD INVALID

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000300660002-1
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 5, 1998
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: June 2, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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JUN 2 1965
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U.N.__CONFESSIONS
ARE HELD INVALID
3 Accused of Firing Bazooka
Denied Rights, Judge Rules
T e o lions in which
three Cubans allegedly admitted,
having fired a bazooka toward
the United Nations last Dec. 11'
,were ruled invalid yesterday. k
In making the ruling, Justice
J. Irwin Shapiro said in Su-:
preme Court, Queens, that the
statements had been taken in;
denial of the men's constitu-l
tional rights.
District Attorney Frank D.;
O'Connor 's office said,, last night'
it was exploring the possibility,
of an appeal.
11 spokesman said Justice
F go beyond other casCs in sug-' -
gesting it was up to a prose- Prosecutor I'l1mir.I 4
cuter to "invite" a defendant's
lawyer to be present when his le told the court tna'. As_j
sis ant District Attorney h'ran-
1 miens em questioned and cis N Smith had even tele-~
making was
s statteme ents.
In cross-examinaing a detec-lph need his office Dec. 22 to rc-',
tive, Peter James Johnson, the poi t the Cubans had been taken
Cubans' lawyer, brought outl in custody that day.
that one defendant-Julio Car-1 espite this, Mr. Johnson
los Perez-had worked for the sal he was refused permission
Central Intellil'cnce Agency in to be with the Cubans from
Cuba for ff"o''ur months in 1958. 6:11 P. M. on Dee, 22, when he
is As a result, Mr. Perez was ar 'ved at the station house,
taken before a firing .squad in un it they were booked, about
1959. 11 P.M.
The squad fired a volley. The. r? Johnson, who has taken
bullets were blanks, but Mr. up the Cubans' case without
!Perez was so affected that he ; fc ' cited a munber of prcce-
-required psychiatric treatment,jdo is against accepting con-
before he finally got out of 4fe. Ions.
Cuba in 1960, according to this ? no was a 1^5:1 Court of Ap-
version. -Ipe is decision -People v. Dono-
Yesterday's hearing arose !va -that sent a Queens case
from a motion by Mr. Jdhnson,;ba k for retrial because an ac-
for a hearing on the voluntari- cu ed had not been allowed to
ness of the confessions made tol~,se a lawyer he did not even
the detective, William Reilly ofI kn w his family had retained.
;the Long Island City, Queens,!, nother was the United
i!precinct and to the prose-! States Supreme Court's 1964
cutors. reersal' of the Illinois murder
The Cubans, Mr. Perez and. -co victlnn of Danny Escobedo.
E the brothers Ignacio and Guil- w o had asked for and been re-
ed p.:rrlission to see a lawyer
had fired a shell from the+ waiting in a. station house.
.Queens shore into the East. The !Cuba-?.s were indicted
River to divert attention from list, :L~,:i, 25 on ',wo felony;,
:a speech that Maj. Ernesto Chet c` -'.~ gc possession and use of al
Guevara, a chief aide of Pre-,,.Cc ., .ere s r,?eapen, and threei
mier Fidel Castro, was makings r dc;.ieaae char; es, disturb-;
to the General Assembly. jag a ls''vfr.1 meetin:' , conspiracy!
Mr. Johnson asserted that i and violation of, the fireworks;
detectives had known he was, lave
the Cubans' 'lawyer since Dec. Mr. Johnson said he would
15, when he took his cllentsRnuwe today before Supreme
away from the station house 4 Court Justice Albert H. Boach?
.after they had first been ques to dismiss the indictments on'
tion.ed and had denied firing the the ground that "the underpin-'
pazgoka. .r ,,, ning of the case are gone."
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