Case Name: The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Thomas E. Quigley and Jerome M. Dowling, Appellants
Court: New York Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1975-10-30
Citations: 37 N.Y.2d 913
Docket Number: 
Parties: The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Thomas E. Quigley and Jerome M. Dowling, Appellants.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Reports
Volume: 37
Pages: 913–915

Head Matter:
The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Thomas E. Quigley and Jerome M. Dowling, Appellants.
Argued September 17, 1975;
decided October 30, 1975
John P. Schoñeld, Herbert Siegal and Richard A. Dienst for appellants.
Mario Merola, District Attorney (Robert M. Moll and Daniel J. Sullivan of counsel), for respondent.

Opinion:
Memorandum. Appellants' convictions for conspiracy in the third degree must be affirmed. The motion to dismiss the defective indictment of which they complain was not "made prior to commencement of trial" and so the lower courts acted within their discretion in refusing to consider it (CPL 210.20; subd 2). Moreover, while the indictment did specify as underlying counts to the conspiracy charge not only grand larceny by extortion (a class C felony), but also bribery (class D) and two minor charges of official misconduct dismissed by the court (see CPL 200.30), the actual charge to the jury, which consumed some two hundred pages of the record, made very clear that the conspiracy count related only to the conspiracy to commit grand larceny by extortion. Thus the record would appear to support even the verdict of conspiracy in the second degree returned by the jury.
Furthermore, the Appellate Division's modification to conspiracy in the third degree was within its discretion. CPL 470.15 authorizes that court to make such modifications i; situations which "include, but are not limited to" the conditions listed therein. (See People v Graham, 36 NY2d 633, 640.)
Chief Judge Breitel and Judges Jasen, Gabrielli, Jones, Wachtler, Fuchsberg and Cooke concur.
Orders affirmed, in a memorandum.