People v Bridgers, Eric
Motion No: 2016-08936
Slip Opinion No: 2017 NY Slip Op 66834(U)
Decided on March 9, 2017
Appellate Division, 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 Division: Second Judicial Department

M227359

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JEFFREY A. COHEN, J.P.

JOSEPH J. MALTESE

HECTOR D. LASALLE

BETSY BARROS, JJ.

2016-08936

The People, etc., respondent,

v Eric Bridgers, appellant.

(Ind. No. 804N/16)

DECISION & ORDER ON MOTION

Motion by the appellant pro se to be furnished with the transcripts of certain proceedings on an appeal from a judgment of the County Court, Nassau County, rendered August 3, 2016.

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 decision and order on motion of this Court dated December 16, 2016, which granted poor person relief to the appellant, is amended to include a direction to the court reporter to make, certify and file two transcripts of the stenographic minutes of the proceedings which occurred on June 8, 2016, June 23, 2016, and June 28, 2016, in the above-entitled action, if they are available; and it is further,

ORDERED that the stenographer is directed to make, certify and file such transcripts within 45 days of the date of this decision and order on motion and the clerk of the trial court shall furnish one certified transcript of each of the proceedings to the appellant's counsel, Jillian S. Harrington, Esq., P. O. Box 131621, Staten Island, NY 10313, 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 in the event the stenographer has already prepared a copy of any of the transcripts for a codefendant, then the clerk of the trial court is directed to reproduce a copy thereof for assigned counsel; and it is further,

ORDERED that assigned counsel is directed to serve a copy of this decision and order on motion upon the clerk of the court from which the appeal is taken; and it is further,

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

COHEN, J.P., MALTESE, LASALLE and BARROS, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

Aprilanne Agostino

Clerk of the Court