In what Queens prosecutors hailed as a “significant victory” for domestic violence victims, a judge has found a complainant’s emailed signature on a document to be enough to move a case ahead.
After watching numerous domestic violence cases disintegrate due post-arrest pressures by defendants on complainants, Queens prosecutors used a case against Gustalvo Perez Sanchez to test that e-signatures, which can be obtained more quickly than the written version, can create legally sufficient criminal court informations.
