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THERE WAS GOOD CAUSE FOR THE 31 YEAR DELAY IN INDICTING DEFENDANT FOR MURDER (SECOND DEPT).

The Second Department determined there was good cause for a 31 year delay in indicting the defendant for murder:

Cecil Schiff (hereinafter the decedent) was murdered in September 1980 during a robbery of his apartment. With no eyewitnesses and no match to latent fingerprints that were recovered from the crime scene, the investigation stalled. In 2008, a detective with the New York City Police Department’s Latent Print Unit randomly selected the case for fingerprint analysis, and determined that the defendant’s fingerprints matched three fingerprints recovered from a jewelry box and two other boxes found in the decedent’s bedroom. Further investigation revealed that the defendant, who was a 17-year-old high school student at the time of the murder, was absent from school on the day of the murder. The defendant was arrested and indicted in 2012, more than 31 years after the crime was committed.  * * *

… [A] significant amount of the delay was due to a lack of evidence identifying a viable suspect. After the defendant’s fingerprints were matched to the fingerprints recovered from the three boxes in the decedent’s bedroom, further investigation was conducted. The People had a good-faith basis to wait until they had sufficient evidence to arrest the defendant. Accordingly, we agree with the Supreme Court’s determination that the People met their burden of demonstrating good cause for the delay … . The reasons for the delay establishing the People’s good cause, the nature of the crime, and the fact that there was no period of pre-indictment incarceration in connection with this matter outweigh the extent of the delay. The court appropriately balanced the requisite factors in denying the defendant’s motion to dismiss the indictment … . People v Mattison, 2018 NY Slip Op 04569, Second Dept 6-20-18

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