Legal Opinion
In re the Second Report of the Seneca County Special Grand Jury of January 2007
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided February 6, 2009PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Appeal from an order of the Seneca County Court (Dennis F. Bender, J.), dated February 15, 2008. The order accepted Report Number 2 of the January 2007 Seneca County Special Grand Jury and directed the filing of the report as a public record.
It is hereby ordered that the order so appealed from is unanimously reversed on the law and the report is sealed.
*1080Memorandum: We agree with appellant, a public official of Seneca County, that County Court erred in directing that a grand jury report be filed as a public record. It is “incumbent upon the prosecutor to instruct the Grand Jury regarding the…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- In re June 1982 Grand Jury of the Supreme CourtAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1983
- In re the Reports of the Grand Jury of the County of MontgomeryAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1984
- Morgenthau v. CuttitaAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1996
3Cited by3 opinions
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