People v. Sparer

Appeal by the People from an order of the Supreme Court, Kangs County (Starkey, J.), dated June 29, 2000, which granted the defendant’s motion to set aside a jury verdict convicting him of endangering the welfare of a child (two counts), and to dismiss the indictment in the furtherance of justice pursuant to CPL 210.40.

Ordered that the order is modified, on the law, by deleting therefrom the provision granting that branch of the defendant’s motion which was pursuant to CPL 210.40 to dismiss the indictment in the furtherance of justice, and substituting therefor a provision denying that branch…