Appellate Division: Second Judicial Department

M200387

V/

JOHN M. LEVENTHAL, J.P.

JEFFREY A. COHEN

COLLEEN D. DUFFY

HECTOR D. LASALLE, JJ.

2012-09702, 2015-04179 The People, etc., respondent, v Naula Zhagnay, appellant. (Ind. No. 2632/11)

DECISION & ORDER ON MOTION Motion for Poor Person Relief and to Assign Counsel

Motion by the appellant for leave to prosecute an appeal, by permission, from an order of the Supreme Court, Queens County, dated April 16, 2015, as a poor person, and for the assignment of counsel, and to consolidate that appeal with an appeal from a judgment of the same court, rendered October 15, 2012.

Upon the papers filed in support of the motion and the papers filed in relation thereto, it is

ORDERED that the motion is granted; and it is further,

ORDERED that the appeals will be heard on the original papers (including a certified transcript of the proceedings, if any) and on the appellant's and the respondent's briefs; the parties are directed to file nine copies of their respective briefs and to serve one copy on each other; and it is further,

ORDERED that the stenographer of the trial court is directed promptly to make, certify, and file two transcripts of any hearing held in connection with the order dated April 16, 2015, except for those minutes previously transcribed and certified (see 22 NYCRR 671.9); and it is further,

ORDERED that the Clerk of the trial court shall furnish one certified transcript of each of the proceedings set forth above to the appellant's counsel, without charge (see CPL 460.70); assigned counsel is directed to turn over those transcripts to the respondent when counsel serves the appellant's brief on the respondent; and it is further,

ORDERED that pursuant to County Law § 722 the following named attorney is assigned as counsel to prosecute the appeal from the order of the Supreme Court, Queens County, dated April 16, 2015. On September 12, 2013, that attorney was also assigned to prosecute the appeal from the judgment rendered October 15, 2012:

Lynn W. L. Fahey, Esq.

Appellate Advocates

111 John Street - 9th Floor

New York, New York 10038

and it is further,

ORDERED that the appellant's time to perfect the appeals is enlarged; assigned counsel shall prosecute the appeals expeditiously in accordance with this Court's rules (see 22 NYCRR 670.1, et seq.) and written directions; and it is further,

ORDERED that in the event the file has been sealed, it is hereby unsealed for the limited purpose of allowing assigned counsel or his representative access to the record for the purpose of preparing the appeals; such access shall include permission to copy the papers insofar as they pertain to the appellant; and it is further,

ORDERED that assigned counsel is directed to serve a copy of this order upon the Clerk of the court from which the appeals are taken.

LEVENTHAL, J.P., COHEN, DUFFY and LASALLE, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

Aprilanne Agostino

Clerk of the Court

Appellant's Attorney:

12-R-3274

Mohawk Corr. Fac.

Box 8451, 6100 School Road

Rome, N.Y. 13442