People v. Ditchik

Our modification of the judgment of conviction requires the reversal of so much of the judgment as convicts the defendant, under count two of the indictment, of an attempt to commit the crime of bribery. (Penal Law, §§ 2, 378.) “ Acts in furtherance of a criminal project do not reach the stage of an attempt unless they carry the project forward within dangerous proximity to the criminal end to be attained.” (People v. Werblow, 241 N. Y. 55, 61, 62; People v. Collins, 234 N. Y. 355, 359, 360.) In an effort to establish the defendant’s guilt under count two the prosecution introduced testimony…