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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

In the Matter of Cynthia Zeigler, Petitioner, v Robert M. Morgenthau, as District Attorney of New York County, et al., Respondents.
   — Upon remittitur from the Court of Appeals, the petition seeking a writ prohibiting respondents from further prosecution of petitioner under indictment No. 852/83 is granted.

The Court of Appeals having adopted the reasoning in the dissenting memorandum of then Justice Fritz W. Alexander, II (99 AD2d 989, 990-991), that there was no manifest necessity for the Trial Judge’s decision to grant a mistrial, and having remitted to this court for entry of an order, we order that the petition be granted and the indictment dismissed. Concur — Kupferman, J. P., Sandler, Carro and Milonas, JJ.