Legal Opinion
Mtr of Katherine B v. Cataldo
New York Court of Appeals
Decided July 6, 2005PublishedCited by 29 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Read, J.
This appeal calls upon us to decide whether CPL 160.50 (1) (d) (ii) authorizes a superior court to make sealed records available to a prosecutor for purposes of making sentencing recommendations. In light of the limitations placed by the Legislature on unsealing, we conclude that it does not.
I
On March 26, 2003, the four petitioners participated in a political demonstration near the intersection of Fifth Avenue and 47th Street in Manhattan, staged at the height of the morning rush hour. Wearing matching shirts with identical, preprinted signs and dabbed with fake…
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- Harper v. AngiolilloNew York Court of Appeals · 1997
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