Chang v. Rotker
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Bracken J. P.
In this proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78, the petitioner seeks, inter alla, to enjoin the respondent District Attorney from prosecuting an indictment which was filed by a Queens County Grand Jury on March 30, 1989. According to the petitioner, the District Attorney lacks jurisdiction to proceed, because on March 1, 1989, the Criminal Court of the City of New York, Queens County, dismissed a prior accusatory instrument which had been pending in that court and which had included charges factually similar, or identical, to those now contained in the present…
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