People v. Benitez

OPINION OF THE COURT

Marjorie L. Byrnes, J.

The above defendants were arrested by the Rochester Police Department and charged with criminal solicitation in the fourth degree and attempt to commit the crime of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree. The arrests resulted from a series of "reverse sting” operations conducted by the Rochester Police Department during April 1995 on Mead Street and Upper Falls Boulevard, in the City of Rochester. The informations filed with this court for each defendant are substantially the same.1

The defendants have moved to dismiss that…