People v. Pachesa

In People v. Pachesa, 50 Misc 3d 238, 2015 NY Slip Op 25325, 17 N.Y.S.3d 624 (Crim Ct NY County 2015) the issue was not the identity of the defendant, but the identity of the informant who had served as the basis for the deponent's source of knowledge. The Court concluded that although the misdemeanor complaint did not name the informant, the complainant's supporting deposition converted it to an information, since in it the complainant swore that she had read the misdemeanor complaint and that the facts in that complaint that were attributed to her were true. There was accordingly an "obvious and reasonable," 17 N.Y.S.3d at 629, inference that the complainant was the informant referred to in the misdemeanor complaint.