A judge dismissed the criminal indictment against Rensselaer County District Attorney Joel Abelove regarding his handling of an investigation of a police shooting, finding that the New York Attorney General’s Office lacked jurisdiction to prosecute a perjury charge against him. 

Abelove had been charged with two counts of official misconduct and one count of perjury for allegedly withholding evidence from a grand jury that cleared a Troy, New York, police officer in the 2016 shooting death of Edson Thevenin during a traffic stop that resulted in a vehicle pursuit.