People v. Fletcher

OPINION OF THE COURT

Michael F. McKeon, J.

In one of the first cases to reach this Court post the Court of Appeals decision in People v Casey (95 NY2d 354 [2000]), the defendant moves to dismiss accusatory instruments charging him with menacing in the second degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree on grounds that the *163factual part of both instruments consists solely of hearsay and therefore are jurisdictionally defective.

In People v Casey (supra), the Court of Appeals held that the nonhearsay requirement for informations set forth in CPL 100.40 (1) (c) is met as long as…