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Superior Court Information Not Jurisdictionally Defective Because Different Victims Named

In reversing the Appellate Division, the Court of Appeals determined a Superior Court Information (SCI) was not jurisdictionally defective because it named victims not identified in the felony complaint.  The defendant-respondent was charged with grand larceny based on his use of two persons’ identities to procure mortgages to purchase two properties.  Those “identity theft” victims were named in the felony complaint. The victims named in the SCI, however, were the two banks which issued the mortgages. The Appellate Division held the SCI was jurisdictionally defective because it didn’t name the same victims as the felony complaint. The Court of Appeals, in an opinion by Judge Lippman, held the defect was not jurisdictional because it was clear the felony complaint and SCI charged the same offenses:

Here, the offense to which defendant pleaded guilty is the same offense for which he was charged in the felony complaint, and adding the names of the victims in the SCI did not render the offense a different one. Though the felony complaint did not name the banks that provided the loans, the complaint identified the specific properties in Queens and Brooklyn on which defendant took out mortgages in Hector Sandoval’s name. … There was nothing inappropriate about adding the names of the victims as it did not change the offense alleged. … [T]here was no factual discrepancy between the felony complaint and the second SCI; the crimes were simply portrayed from a different perspective.  People v Milton, No 75, CtApp, 5-7-13

 

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