Key legal question
Whether the applicant had standing to challenge the dismissal of the criminal investigation
Extracted holding
The complaint could be examined only to the extent the applicant raised sufficiently reasoned constitutional grievances; standing as a victim under the Victim Assistance Act was left open.
Extracted reasoning
A merely injured party is generally not entitled to attack the discontinuance of a criminal case on the merits, but may invoke procedural rights; victim standing requires a sufficiently serious impairment, which need not be decided here because the claims fail on the merits.