People of State of New York v Shawn Ackerson
Motion No: 2008-01013 WC 07-07-2008
Slip Opinion No: 2008 NYSlipOp 80892(U)
Decided on August 18, 2008
Appellate Term, Second Department, Motion Decision
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
This motion is uncorrected and is not subject to publication in the Official Reports.


SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK

APPELLATE TERM: 9th and 10th JUDICIAL DISTRICTS


PRESENT : RUDOLPH, P.J., McCABE and SCHEINKMAN, JJ.


NO. 2008-1013 W C
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK,

Respondent,

-against-

SHAWN ACKERSON,

Defendant,

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DAVID GORDON, ESQ.,

Non-Party Appellant.

DECISION

Motion by the People to dismiss appeal by non-party appellant David Gordon, Esq., from an order of the City Court of White Plains, Westchester County (Brian Hansbury, J.), dated April 11, 2008, granted.

Non-party appellant seeks to appeal from an order which denied his motion to modify a prior order by striking certain language therein. Non-party appellant is not aggrieved by the order appealed from because the prior order, while cautioning him about his future conduct, imposed no penalty or sanction upon him (CPLR 5511; see NY Jur 2d Contempt § 204; see generally Ton-Da-Lay v Diamond, 36 NY2d 856 [1975]). In addition, no appeal lies from an order arising out of a criminal proceeding absent specific statutory authorization (see People v Santos, 64 NY2d 702, 704 [1984]; People v Herrara, 171 AD2d 85, 87 [1991]), and such authorization is here lacking (see CPL art 450).