People v. Levine

Appeal by the People, as limited by their brief, from so much of an order óf the County Court, Nassau County (Delin, J.), dated July 29, 1980, as dismissed the third count of the indictment, bribing a witness (Penal Law, § 215.00), against defendant Levine. Order reversed insofar as appealed from, on the law, the third count of the indictment is reinstated as against defendant Levine, and the case is remitted to the County Court for further proceedings with respect to the reinstated count. The corpus delicti of the crime of bribing a witness is the agreement or understanding that a benefit…