Roman v. Brown

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York

Roman v. Brown

175 A.D.2d 899, 573 N.Y.S.2d 627, 1991 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 11168

CourtAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

DecidedAugust 22, 1991

StatusPublished

Cited by7 cases

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Roman v. Brown, 175 A.D.2d 899, 573 N.Y.S.2d 627, 1991 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 11168 (N.Y. Ct. App. 1991).

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— Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 to prohibit the respondents from further prosecuting the petitioner under Queens County Indictment Nos. 6791/90 and 1983/91, on the ground that retrial would violate his right not to twice be placed in jeopardy for the same offense, and to dismiss the indictments.

Adjudged that the proceeding is dismissed, without costs or disbursements.

The petitioner claims that the Double Jeopardy Clause bars retrial because his motion for a mistrial at the prior trial was provoked by deliberate prosecutorial misconduct. We disagree. Our review of the relevant portions of the record reveals that the prosecutor’s conduct was not "intended to provoke the [petitioner] into moving for a mistrial” (Oregon v Kennedy, 456 US 667, 679). "Absent such a bad-faith intent, the misconduct does not constitute the type of prosecutorial overreaching contemplated by the United States Supreme Court as requiring the barring of reprosecution on the ground of double jeopardy” (People v Copeland, 127 AD2d 846, 847; see also, Schoendorf v Mullen, 152 AD2d 715, 716). Nor is retrial prohibited by the Double Jeopardy Clause of the New York State Constitution (see, NY Const, art I, § 6; People v Presley, 136 AD2d 949). Kunzeman, J. P., Miller, O’Brien and Ritter, JJ., concur.

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— Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 to prohibit the respondents from further prosecuting the petitioner under Queens County Indictment Nos. 6791/90 and 1983/91, on the ground that retrial would violate his right not to twice be placed in jeopardy for the same offense, and to dismiss the indictments.

Adjudged that the proceeding is dismissed, without costs or disbursements.

The petitioner claims that the Double Jeopardy Clause bars retrial because his motion for a mistrial at the prior trial was provoked by deliberate prosecutorial misconduct. We disagree. Our review of the relevant portions of the record reveals that the prosecutor’s conduct was not "intended to provoke the [petitioner] into moving for a mistrial” (Oregon v Kennedy, 456 US 667, 679). "Absent such a bad-faith intent, the misconduct does not constitute the type of prosecutorial overreaching contemplated by the United States Supreme Court as requiring the barring of reprosecution on the ground of double jeopardy” (People v Copeland, 127 AD2d 846, 847; see also, Schoendorf v Mullen, 152 AD2d 715, 716). Nor is retrial prohibited by the Double Jeopardy Clause of the New York State Constitution (see, NY Const, art I, § 6; People v Presley, 136 AD2d 949). Kunzeman, J. P., Miller, O’Brien and Ritter, JJ., concur.

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