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Indictment Count Did Not State an Offense; Jurisdictional Defect Can Not Be Cured by Amendment

The Third Department determined one count of an indictment was jurisdictionally defective and the People’s attempt to cure the defect by amendment was prohibited by CPL 200.70, which does not allow amendment to fix the failure to state or charge an offense:

Here, count 3 of the indictment charged defendant with conspiracy in the second degree, a crime which requires an “intent that conduct constituting a class A  felony be  performed” (Penal Law § 105.15). While count 3 references the relevant statutory section for conspiracy in the second degree and expressly states that defendant acted “with intent that conduct constituting a class A felony be performed,” it does not include any statutory reference to the class A  felony listed in count 1 of the indictment. * * *

While it is true that “[t]he incorporation [in an indictment] by  specific reference to the statute [defining the crime charged] operates without more to constitute allegations of all the elements of the crime required by explicit provision of the statute itself or by judicial gloss overlaid thereon” …, such reference may be negated, as it was here, by the inclusion of conduct that does not constitute the crime charged …. People v Boula, 104053, 3rd Dept, 5-30-13

 

 

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