People v. Rickert

New York Court of Appeals · Decided 1983-02-15

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OPINION OF THE COURT Fuchsberg, J. The questions posed in common by these five appeals call upon us to interpret CPL 170.40 for the first time since it was amended in 1979 (L 1979, ch 216, § 1, eff Jan. 1,1980). Particularly, these probe a local criminal court’s authority to dismiss an information in the interest of justice. In each case, the Onondaga County Court, in the exercise of its a…

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