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New York Daily News
BY OREN YANIV / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2013
In his first communication with the lame duck Brooklyn District Attorney, incoming DA Kenneth Thompson asked that a high profile sex abuse case against a Jewish cantor be pushed back until he takes office.
In a letter delivered Friday to DA Charles Hynes, Thompson requested to put the prosecution of Baruch Lebovits on hold until the new administration takes the helm at the start of 2014.
“I request that no disposition be offered to the Defendant, no guilty plea be allowed at the upcoming court conference (Tuesday) and that no procedural or substantive steps be taken in the case until I take office,” Thompson wrote.
“We’re going to comply with that request,” DA spokesman Jerry Schmetterer said.
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