Matter of Palacios v. Singas

Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 in the nature of prohibition to prohibit the respondents from retrying the petitioner in a criminal action entitled People v Jose Palacios, pending in the County Court, Nassau County, under indictment No. 413N/16, on the ground that to do so would subject him to double jeopardy.

Adjudged that the petition is denied and the proceeding is dismissed on the merits, without costs or disbursements.

The petitioner was charged with course of sexual conduct against a child in the second degree and predatory sexual assault against a child, and the case proceeded to…