Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, 1986

People v. Hughes

People v. Hughes
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York · Decided February 10, 1986
117 A.D.2d 679; 499 N.Y.S.2d 365; 1986 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 52953
People v. Hughes

Opinion of the Court

—Appeals by the People from (1) an order of the County Court, Suffolk County (Sherman, J.), dated March 26, 1984, which, inter alia, granted defendant’s motion to dismiss the indictment, and (2) an order of the same court, dated April 9, 1984, which denied the People’s motion for leave to resubmit the charges to another Grand Jury.

Order dated March 26, 1984 affirmed.

Order dated April 9, 1984 reversed, on the law, and the People’s motion for leave to resubmit the charges to another Grand Jury granted.

We agree that there was legally insufficient evidence before the Grand Jury and therefore the indictment was properly dismissed. However, in view of the new matter presented on the People’s motion for leave to resubmit the case to another Grand Jury, that motion should have been granted. Mangano, J. P., Rubin, Lawrence and Eiber, JJ., concur.

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