People v. Lawson

On this motion to inspect and dismiss, the court has read the minutes of the proceedings before the Grand Jury which resulted in the indictment of the defendant for the Class A felony of criminal sale of a dangerous drug in the first degree. The only witness before the Grand Jury was an undercover police officer who testified to a single conversation with the defendant, 11 months earlier, during which the defendant allegedly offered and agreed to sell one kilogram of heroin to the officer for "about” $25,000. The officer testified, without elaboration, that the actual sale did not occur and…