Petition granted, on the law, without costs or disbursements, and respondents are prohibited from prosecuting petitioner under Queens County Indictment No. 1522/80. Motion to dismiss denied.
On the record before us, it was improper for the Trial Judge to declare a mistrial during petitioner's first trial because there was no "manifest necessity" to do so (see People v Strick,
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