Becher v. Troy Publishing Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Levine, J.
This libel action arose out of the reportage, in defendant’s newspaper, of judicial proceedings concerning an indictment *232handed up by an extended Rensselaer County Grand Jury in October 1987 involving allegedly false recantations of a rape complaint by Shelly McClure (hereinafter the McClure indictment). The McClure indictment eventually was dismissed on the ground that the case was new matter which the special prosecutor should not have presented for the first time to that Grand Jury during its extended term (see, People v Williams, 73 NY2d 84). As set forth in…
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