46 Cited authorities

  1. People v. Casey

    95 N.Y.2d 354 (N.Y. 2000)   Cited 1,347 times
    Finding nonhearsay allegations including the complainant's supporting deposition, which stated that the order had been issued, was in effect, and that she had personally observed the defendant engage in conduct that violated the order could help to cure an alleged defect in the instrument premised on the failure to provide the underlying court order
  2. People v. Kalin

    2009 N.Y. Slip Op. 2446 (N.Y. 2009)   Cited 687 times
    In Kalin, 12 N.Y.3d 225, 878 N.Y.S.2d 653, 906 N.E.2d 381, the Court of Appeals examined an information which had charged the defendant with, among other things, criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree for the possession of nine plastic bags of heroin.
  3. People v. Dumay

    2014 N.Y. Slip Op. 4038 (N.Y. 2014)   Cited 504 times
    Finding factual allegations in information sufficient to support obstructing governmental administration charge, where information alleged that defendant slammed the trunk of police car and stood behind car preventing it from moving
  4. People v. Alejandro

    70 N.Y.2d 133 (N.Y. 1987)   Cited 1,218 times
    Reviewing the legislature's intent to create a "demanding standard" for the sufficiency of informations
  5. People v. Dreyden

    2010 N.Y. Slip Op. 5243 (N.Y. 2010)   Cited 405 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Stating that the gravity knife law "distinguishes gravity knives from certain folding knives that cannot readily be opened by gravity or centrifugal force"
  6. People v. Dumas

    68 N.Y.2d 729 (N.Y. 1986)   Cited 716 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Noting lack of allegation that police officer was an expert in identifying marijuana or that defendant represented it as such, to support charge that defendant sold marijuana
  7. Riley v. County of Broome

    95 N.Y.2d 455 (N.Y. 2000)   Cited 390 times
    Holding that the legislative history of Vehicle and Traffic Law § 1103 evinces an intent to impose “a minimum standard of care” on operators of vehicles engaged in roadwork
  8. People v. Jones

    2007 N.Y. Slip Op. 9070 (N.Y. 2007)   Cited 228 times
    Dismissing an information alleging disorderly conduct because there was no indication that the defendant "when he stood in the middle of the sidewalk . . . had the intent to or recklessly created a risk of causing 'public inconvenience, annoyance or alarm'"
  9. People v. Case

    42 N.Y.2d 98 (N.Y. 1977)   Cited 398 times
    Holding that the OGA interference must be "in part at least, physical in nature"
  10. People v. Hightower

    2011 N.Y. Slip Op. 8960 (N.Y. 2011)   Cited 78 times
    In Hightower, the Court reversed the judgment of conviction and dismissed an accusatory instrument, holding that "[a]though the information in th[at] case described the events with enough clarity to provide reasonable cause that defendant was engaged in [the class B misdemeanors charged therein],... it was jurisdictionally defective as to the crime of which defendant was actually convicted—petit larceny," a class A misdemeanor (18 N.Y.3d at 254, 938 N.Y.S.2d 500, 961 N.E.2d 1111).