The Bronx district attorney’s interest in eradicating crime and promoting public safety does not give it the right to intervene in a landlord-filed proceeding to evict a tenant convicted of drug possession, a state judge has ruled.
Intervention would “allow the District Attorney to impermissibly veto settlements [between landlords and tenants] by the simple expedient of demanding its right to trial” and would “entail complex motion practice prolonging the disposition of illegal use proceedings,” Housing Court Judge Kevin McClanahan (See Profile) wrote in 40 Marcy Ltd. v. Garcia, 28145/09.
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