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PLEA TO HINDERING PROSECUTION FOR PROVIDING AND HIDING WEAPON STANDS, DESPITE ACQUITTAL OF THE SHOOTER.

The Court of Appeals, in a full-fledged opinion by Judge Rivera, determined the defendant’s plea to hindering prosecution should stand, in spite of the acquittal in the murder prosecution of the codefendant whose weapon defendant provided and subsequently hid:

Defendant … challenges the denial of his motion to withdraw his guilty plea to one count of hindering prosecution in the second degree … . The courts below properly rejected defendant’s claims that his plea is constitutionally infirm and that his codefendant’s acquittal of the underlying felony renders defendant innocent. Neither claim is supported by existing precedent, and his innocence theory is counter to this Court’s holdings in People v Chico (90 NY2d 585 [1997]), People v O’Toole (22 NY3d 335 [2013]), and People v Berkowitz (50 NY2d 333 [1980]). * * *

The logical basis for rejecting defendant’s proposed rule — an assisted person’s acquittal forecloses any finding of a defendant’s criminal liability for hindering prosecution — is rooted in the nature of the crime itself. The intended goal of hindering prosecution is the assisted person’s evasion of criminal liability for the underlying felony. The more effective a defendant’s attempts to obstruct law enforcement, the more likely the assisted person will escape prosecution or be acquitted. Defendant’s rule would have the perverse result of treating as innocent a defendant who stymies an investigation, hides evidence — as in this case — or otherwise sabotages the prosecution, because those efforts lead to the assisted person’s acquittal. People v Fisher, 2017 NY Slip Op 01143, CtApp 2-14-17

 

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