People v. Coffaro

OPINION OF THE COURT

Memorandum.

The order of the Chautauqua County Court should be reversed and the case remitted to that court for review of the facts (CPL 470.25, subd 2, par [d]; 470.40, subd 2, *934par [b]). Defendant was convicted in the Jamestown City Court, after a jury trial, of obstructing governmental administration (Penal Law, § 195.05). The County Court reversed holding that defects in the papers on which was issued the warrant which the officer involved in the obstruction charged sought to execute made it invalid as a matter of law, and that defendant, therefore, had the right to…