People v. Carmody

—Appeal by the People from an order of the County Court, Nassau County (Baker, J.), dated August 13, 1993, which set aside, sua sponte, the defendant’s conviction for leaving the scene of an incident without reporting, after a nonjury trial, and dismissed the indictment.

Ordered that the order is reversed, on the law, the indictment and conviction are reinstated, and the matter is remitted to the County Court, Nassau County, for sentencing.

"A Trial Judge who has rendered a guilty verdict after a nonjury trial has neither inherent power nor statutory authority to reconsider his factual…