FISCHETTI v. SCHERER


44 A.D.3d 89 (2007)

840 N.Y.S.2d 575

In the Matter of RONALD P. FISCHETTI, Petitioner, v. MICKI A. SCHERER et al., Respondents.

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

July 19, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ronald P. Fischetti, New York City, petitioner pro se.

Andrew M. Cuomo, Attorney General, New York City (Katherine M. Timon of counsel), for Micki A. Scherer, respondent.

Robert M. Morgenthau, District Attorney, New York City (Ameer Benno of counsel), respondent pro se.

TOM, J.P., MARLOW, SULLIVAN and WILLIAMS, JJ., concur.


OPINION OF THE COURT

SAXE, J.

Petitioner is the attorney for criminal defendant James Barbour, a well-known Broadway actor, who was charged with having sexually abused a 15-year-old girl in 2001. This petition challenges an order of the Supreme Court, Criminal Term, "directing the defense counsel to refrain from publishing the name of the complainant as a means of investigating her credibility."

The issue arose based upon charges of criminal sexual...

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