PEOPLE v. GONZALEZ


266 A.D.2d 30 (1999)

699 N.Y.S.2d 7

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. RAMON GONZALEZ, Appellant.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department.

Decided November 9, 1999.


The trial court appropriately exercised its discretion in denying defendant an adverse inference charge or other sanction for the Police Department's destruction of the money recovered from defendant after his arrest. The currency was transferred to the Federal Government for destruction pursuant to routine procedures more than two years after it had been vouchered, after a departmental review of cases erroneously indicated that this case had been terminated, when in fact...

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