Legal Opinion
People ex rel. Mack v. Warden
New York Supreme Court
Decided November 30, 1989PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*1017OPINION OF THE COURT
Richard J. Goldman, J.
The court has consolidated the two above-entitled matters for the purpose of this decision because they involve identical issues of law. Both defendants claim that they are being illegally incarcerated because the misdemeanor complaint upon which each is being held has not been properly converted to a misdemeanor information within the statutory time frame (CPL 170.70). Both defendants therefore seek a writ of habeas corpus.
Both defendants were originally incarcerated on the basis of a multicount misdemeanor complaint. In the case of People v Evering,…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- People v. TuckerNew York Court of Appeals · 1981
- Selvester v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1898
- Ballew v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1895
- People v. SciasciaAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1944
- People v. SciasciaNew York Court of Appeals · 1945
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