People v. Fezza

Appeal from an order of the County Court of Cortland County (Ames, J.), entered December 9, 2002, which granted defendant’s motion to dismiss the indictment.

In May 2001, defendant allegedly assaulted Kimberly Becker because Becker had cooperated with police in a drug investigation that included defendant’s brother, Mark Fezza. The investigation into a purported multicounty drug distribution network that implicated Fezza was being conducted by the Attorney General’s Organized Crime Task Force (hereinafter OCTF). In furtherance of this investigation, the Cortland County District Attorney…