People v. Brody

This is an application for a certificate of reasonable doubt.

The defendant Brody was a public officer, namely a deputy commissioner of the Department of Marine and Aviation of the City of New York. In its fifteen substantive counts the indictment charged that Brody, acting in consort with and aided and abetted by defendants Auditore and Gross, received various unlawful fees in violation of section 1826 of the Penal Law. *353In another count the three defendants were charged with conspiring together to receive these unlawful fees on Brody’s behalf.

Brody and Auditore stood trial. Gross, the third…