New York State Supreme Court Justice Philip Halpern, of Buffalo, and Dr. Herbert Wechsler, professor of law at Columbia Law School, have been appointed by State Senate president Walter J. Mahoney to serve on the nine-member Temporary State Commission on Revision of the Penal Law and Criminal Code, it was announced here today. The Commission was created by the State Legislature to simplify existing provisions of the Criminal Code, and to streamline court procedure to facilitate the disposition of criminal cases.
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