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Waiver of Indictment and Guilty Plea Invalid—Superior Court Information Charged a Greater Offense than that Charged in the Original Misdemeanor Information

The Third Department determined defendant’s conviction must be reversed because the superior court information to which defendant pled guilty charged a greater offense (conspiracy fourth degree) than was charged in the misdemeanor complaint (criminal solicitation fourth degree).  In addition, because the defendant’s guilty plea to another offense (criminal sexual act first degree) was induced by the court’s promise of a lesser sentence to run concurrently with the overturned conspiracy sentence, the sexual act plea must be vacated.  With respect to the invalid superior court information, the court wrote:

In New York, felony charges must be prosecuted by indictment, unless a defendant “held for the action of a grand jury upon a charge for such an offense, other than one punishable by death or life imprisonment, with the consent of the district attorney, . . . waive[s] indictment by a grand jury and consent[s] to be prosecuted on an information filed by the district attorney” (NY Const, art I, § 6; see CPL 195.10 [1]).  Where an indictment waiver has been secured, however, the People may not charge in a superior court information a “‘greater offense[], which [has] additional aggravating elements'” … .  This is precisely what occurred here.  The misdemeanor complaint charged defendant with criminal solicitation in the fourth degree and the superior court information impermissibly charged the greater offense of conspiracy in the fourth degree.  Inasmuch as the improper inclusion of a greater offense is a jurisdictional infirmity …, notwithstanding defendant’s appeal waiver and plea, we must reverse his conviction of conspiracy in the fourth degree and dismiss the superior court information… . People v Price, 2014 NY Slip Op 00140 [113 AD3d 883] 3rd Dept 1-9-14

 

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