Opinion
August 31, 1995
Appeal from the Family Court, New York County (Edward Kaufman, J.).
All three respondents were arrested and charged with acts which if committed by an adult would constitute various degrees of criminal possession and/or sale of a controlled substance and, in each case, moved to dismiss the petition as jurisdictionally defective on the ground that the laboratory reports, submitted in support of the respective petitions, did not constitute nonhearsay evidence that the substance in question was cocaine. Dismissal of the petitions on this ground was error. In Matter of Kaliek G. ( 208 A.D.2d 392, lv denied 85 N.Y.2d 801) and Matter of Deshone C. ( 207 A.D.2d 756, lv denied 85 N.Y.2d 801) we held that laboratory reports containing a certification signed by the testing chemist, that the report was "a true and full copy of the original report made by me", satisfied the requirement of Family Court Act § 311.2 (3), that the petition and any supporting depositions contain nonhearsay allegations establishing, if true, every element of the crime charged and the respondent's commission thereof. Each of the chemist's reports in question here contained such a certification, and therefore was adequate to identify the substances in question as cocaine. We have considered respondents' other arguments and find them to be without merit.
Concur — Murphy, P.J., Rubin, Kupferman, Ross and Mazzarelli, JJ.