What is the test for reasonable cause to believe a person has committed a crime?

¹ Although inapplicable to this defendant because he waived prosecution by information, a valid information must also contain nonhearsay allegations establishing every element of the charged offense and the defendant's commission thereof (CPL 100.40[1][c] ). This is known as the prima facie case requirement (see People v. Kalin , 12 N.Y.3d 225, 229, 878 N.Y.S.2d 653, 906 N.E.2d 381 [2009] ).

² The statutory definition of "reasonable cause to believe" a person has committed a particular offense does not require "competent evidence" (see CPL 70.10[1], [2] ), and instead "requires only apparently reliable evidence or information of such weight and persuasiveness as to convince a person of ordinary intelligence, judgment and experience that it is reasonably likely " that the accused committed a particular offense (People v. Hetrick , 80 N.Y.2d 344, 350, 590 N.Y.S.2d 183, 604 N.E.2d 732 [1992], quoting CPL 70.10[2] ).