Johnson v. Morgenthau

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Lewis Friedman, J.), entered January 13, 1994, which denied petitioner’s application under the Freedom of Information Law for access to documents relating to the criminal proceeding against him prosecuted by respondent, without prejudice to petitioner pursuing an administrative appeal, unanimously modified, on the law, to reverse the denial of the application and dismiss the proceeding as moot, and otherwise affirmed, without costs.

It appears that due to an inadvertent mishandling of petitioner’s document request, respondent did not make the requested…