Legal Opinion

In re the Application for an Order Directing Disclosure of the Minutes of the Grand Jury Investigation

New York Supreme Court

Decided May 16, 1988PublishedCited by 4 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION OF THE COURT

Burton B. Roberts, J.

The District Attorney’s motion for an order releasing in its entirety the approximately 2,000 pages of the Grand Jury proceedings, with names redacted, in the matter of the investigation into the death of Yvonne Smallwood (investigation No. 49160/87), is disposed of as follows:

On December 3, 1987, Yvonne Smallwood was involved in an altercation with members of the Police Department on the streets of Bronx County. She was incarcerated for six days, *283coming in contact with many of the component parts that make up the criminal justice system, dying while…

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