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Court Review of Sufficiency of Evidence Before a Grand Jury Explained

The Fourth Department determined the circumstantial evidence of constructive possession of a package containing drugs was legally sufficient to support the indictment.  The court explained how the sufficiency of evidence before a grand jury is analyzed:

On a motion to dismiss the indictment pursuant to CPL 210.20 (1) (b), “the inquiry of the reviewing court is limited to the legal sufficiency of the evidence; the court may not examine the adequacy of the proof to establish reasonable cause” … . The “reviewing court must consider ‘whether the evidence viewed in the light most favorable to the People, if unexplained and uncontradicted, would warrant conviction by a petit jury’ ” … . In the context of grand jury proceedings, “legal sufficiency means prima facie proof of the crimes charged, not proof beyond a reasonable doubt” … . Thus, we must determine “ ‘whether the facts, if proven, and the inferences that logically flow from those facts supply proof of every element of the charged crimes,’ and whether ‘the [g]rand [j]ury could rationally have drawn the guilty inference’ ” … .  People v Forsythe, 359, 4th Dept 3-28-14

 

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