Pottish v. Long Island Daily Press Publishing Co.

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• finding no due process violation where a defendant pleaded guilty to a hypothetical crime
• upholding conviction on plea to attempted manslaughter in second degree, a statutory crime, although mental state for attempt may be logically inconsistent with mental state for completed crime
• upholding conviction on plea to attempted manslaughter in second degree, a statutory crime, although mental state for attempt may be logically inconsistent with mental state for completed crime
• defendant who sought and accepted a plea of attempted manslaughter, in exchange for substantially reduced exposure, could not later challenge his conviction as legally incoherent
• defendant who sought and accepted a plea of attempted manslaughter, in exchange for substantially reduced exposure, could not later challenge his conviction as legally incoherent
• statute defined manslaughter as homicide “without a design to effect death”

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