People v 2017BX013511 Wilson Galarza

Motion No: M-4482

Slip Opinion No: 2017 NYSlipOp 96757(U)

Decided on December 28, 2017

Appellate Division, First 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.

December 28, 2017

The People of the State of New York,

Respondent, Docket Nos. 2017BX010968

v

2017BX013511

Wilson Galarza,

Defendant-Appellant.

Appeals having been taken to this Court from judgments of the Supreme Court, Bronx County, rendered May 3, 2017 under Ind. No. 3337/15, and Docket Nos. 2017BX010968 and 2017BX013511, And an order of the Appellate Term, First Judicial Department having been entered on June 27, 2017, inter alia, granting defendant poor person relief with respect to the appeal under Docket No. 2017BX010968, and assigning Seymour W. James, Jr., Esq., the Legal Aid Society, as counsel to prosecute the appeal,And an order of this Court having been entered on July 13, 2017 (M-2980), inter alia, granting poor person relief with respect to the judgment rendered on or about May 3, 2017 under Ind. No. 3337/15, and assigning Robert S. Dean, Esq., the Center for Appellate Litigation, as counsel,And defendant-appellant having moved, through assigned counsel, for leave to appeal as a poor person from the judgment under Docket No. 2017BX013511, for the assignment of Seymour W. James, Jr., Esq., as counsel on that appeal, transferring the appeals under Docket Nos. 2017BX013511 and 2017BX010968 from the Appellate Term, First Department, to this Court, and for continuance of the poor person relief and substitution of counsel with respect to the appeal under Ind. No. 3337/15, Now, upon reading and filing the papers with respect to the motion, and due deliberation having been had thereon, It is ordered that the motion is granted, the appeals from the judgments under Docket Nos. 2017BX013511 and 2017BX010968, rendered May 3, 2017 are transferred from the Appellate Term, First Department, to this Court, and the poor person relief granted by the order of this Court entered July 13, 2017 under Ind. No. 3337/15 (M-2980) is extended to cover the judgments under Docket Nos. 2017BX010968 and 2017BX013511, and Seymour W. James, Jr., Esq., the Legal Aid Society, is assigned as counsel to prosecute all of the appeals. ENTERED: December 28, 2017

_____________________ CLERK

Present - Hon. John W. Sweeny, Jr.,Justice Presiding, Barbara R. Kapnick Cynthia S. Kern Peter H. Moulton,Justices

M-4482

Ind. No. 3337/15