Appellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York, 1997

People v. Grune

Appellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York · Decided November 3, 1997

175 Misc. 2d 281; 670 N.Y.S.2d 300; 1997 N.Y. Misc. LEXIS 670

Counsel

APPEARANCES OF COUNSEL, Luis A. Medina, Hawthorne, for appellant. Jeanine Ferris Pirro, District Attorney of Westchester County, White Plains (Katherine S. Spiess and Bruce Edward Kelly of counsel), for respondent.

Opinion of the Court

OPINION OF THE COURT

Memorandum.

Judgment of conviction unanimously reversed on the law and matter remanded to the court below for further proceedings on the original felony complaint.

Even though the defendant expressly consented to an oral reduction of the felony complaint, such a reduction was invalid *282and the defect nonwaivable (see, People v Jones, 151 Misc 2d 582, 584, lv denied sub nom. People v Mayfield, 79 NY2d 921).

DiPaola, P. J., Collins and Ingrassia, JJ., concur.

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