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THE MURDER COUNT, WHICH SHOULD HAVE BEEN DISMISSED BECAUSE THE PEOPLE DID NOT SEEK PERMISSION TO RESUBMIT IT AFTER THE GRAND JURY DEADLOCKED ON THE CHARGE, DID NOT TAINT THE CONVICTION ON THE MANSLAUGHTER COUNT UNDER A SPILL-OVER ANALYSIS (CT APP).

The Court of Appeals, in a full-fledged opinion by Judge Fahey, over a concurring opinion, reversing the appellate division, determined the murder count in the second indictment should have been dismissed because the People did not seek court permission to re-present it after the grand jury which issued the first indictment deadlocked on that charge. But the court further held the murder count, on which defendant was acquitted, did not taint the manslaughter conviction under a spill-over analysis. The manslaughter count was a valid count in the first indictment (both indictments were tried together):

The People’s failure to obtain court permission to resubmit a murder count to a new grand jury after the first grand jury deadlocked on that charge violated Criminal Procedure Law § 190.75 (3), and Supreme Court erred in denying defendant’s pretrial motion to dismiss the murder count in the second indictment on that ground.  * * *

Under the particular circumstances of this case, we conclude that defendant is not entitled to a new trial on the manslaughter count. The People assert that all of the evidence admitted to prove defendant’s guilt of murder in the second degree was also admissible to prove his guilt of manslaughter in the first degree, and defendant does not contend otherwise. … [T]he presence of the tainted murder count here did not result in the admission of any prejudicial evidence that the jury would have been unable to consider if the murder count had been dismissed … . People v Allen, 2018 NY Slip Op 08537, CtApp 12-13-18

 

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