Case Name: In the Matter of Stephen Atkinson, Appellant, v. John Barone, as Judge of the Criminal Court of Bronx County, et al., Respondents
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1994-01-13
Citations: 200 A.D.2d 438
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of Stephen Atkinson, Appellant, v John Barone, as Judge of the Criminal Court of Bronx County, et al., Respondents.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 200
Pages: 438–438

Head Matter:
In the Matter of Stephen Atkinson, Appellant, v John Barone, as Judge of the Criminal Court of Bronx County, et al., Respondents.
[607 NYS2d 244]

Opinion:
—Judgment (denominated an order), Supreme Court, Bronx County (Jerry Crispino, J.), entered September 16, 1993, which, in a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 to prohibit respondent District Attorney from further prosecuting petitioner under an information accusing him of unlawful imprisonment in the second degree and sexual abuse in the third degree, upon the ground that such would violate his right against double jeopardy, granted respondent's cross motion to dismiss the proceeding for failure to state a cause of action, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
The trial court did not abuse its discretion in declaring a mistrial upon the ground of "manifest necessity", there having been reliable information that the inability of the complaining witness to complete her testimony was due to unforeseeable complications in her 8Vi month pregnancy not within the control of the People (see, Hall v Potoker, 49 NY2d 501, 506). Concur — Murphy, P. J., Sullivan, Rosenberger and Wallach, JJ.