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MATTER OF LESHER v. HYNES

No. 49.

19 N.Y.3d 57 (2012)

2012 NY Slip Op 2414

In the Matter of MICHAEL LESHER, Appellant, v. CHARLES J. HYNES, as District Attorney of Kings County, New York, et al., Respondents.

Court of Appeals of New York.

Decided April 3, 2012.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael Lesher, Passaic, New Jersey, appellant pro se.

Charles J. Hynes, District Attorney, Brooklyn Morgan J. Dennehy,   Leonard Joblove and Jodi L. Mandel of counsel), for respondents.

New York Civil Liberties Union Foundation, New York City ( Christopher Dunn,   Corey Stoughton and Daniel Mullkoff of counsel), for New York Civil Liberties Union, amicus curiae.

Chief Judge LIPPMAN and Judges CIPARICK, GRAFFEO, SMITH, PIGOTT and JONES concur.

OPINION OF THE COURT

READ, J.

In 1984, a Kings County grand jury handed down an indictment charging Avrohom Mondrowitz with multiple counts of sexual abuse involving young boys. But he had already fled from the United States to Israel, one step ahead of an arrest warrant. Attempts to extradite Mondrowitz foundered early on, apparently because differences in Israeli and New York law prevented his return under...

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