People v. Renaghan

Memorandum.

Defendant was charged with a violation of section 215.50 of the Penal Law for his alleged contumacious and unlawful refusal to answer certain questions during a Grand Jury investigation, in which it was claimed that he gave conspicuously evasive and patently false answers relating to whether a Detective Keeley told the defendant that Hugh Mulligan would like to have a Detective Sangiriardi assigned to a special investigative unit. On the record before us, including as it does defendant’s unequivocal denials of the District Attorney’s interrogatories-in this regard at the inception…