Defendant's conviction was not jurisdictionally defective. The court properly reinstated a previously dismissed indictment upon defendant's specific recommendation and accepted defendant's guilty plea under the reinstated indictment. There is no constitutional impediment to a court's power to modify its decisions provided those modifications do not subject the defendant to double jeopardy (Matter of Lionel F.,
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