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For January 3, 2025 through January 9, 2025, the following preliminary appeal statements were filed:

PEOPLE v ANDERSON (KELLY L.) (220 AD3d 1223):
APL-2024-00179 4th Dept. App. Div. order of 10/06/23; affirmance; leave to appeal granted by Wilson, Ch.J., 12/27/24; Crimes--Verdict--Sufficiency of Evidence--Whether Appellate Division applied correct legal standard in weighing evidence; whether conviction was supported by legally sufficient evidence; Crimes--Right to Counsel--Effective Representation--Whether defense counsel was ineffective; Crimes--Proof of Other Crimes--Whether trial court properly allowed testimony relating to prior abuse of victim; County Court, Yates County, convicted defendant of murder in the second degree; App. Div. affirmed.

LEK v LEK (232 AD3d 547):
APL-2025-00001 1st Dept. App. Div. order of 11/26/24; affirmance; sua sponte examination of whether the order appealed from finally determines the action and whether any jurisdictional basis exists for the appeal taken as of right; Husband and Wife and Other Domestic Relationships--Divorce; Supreme Court, New York County, denied defendant wife's motion to direct plaintiff husband to establish a residence away from the home of his father, to engage a child care provider for the child during his parenting time, and to pay the wife's legal fees, and granted the husband's cross-motion to the extent of awarding him reimbursement for the payment he made to a jointly selected security guard for a walk-through of the parties' former residence; App. Div. affirmed.

RITCHIE v RITCHIE (2024 NY Slip Op 77987[U]):
APL-2025-00003 2nd Dept. App. Div. order of 11/6/24; denied motion; sua sponte examination of whether the order appealed from finally determines the action within the meaning of the Constitution and whether any jurisdictional basis exists for an appeal as of right; Motions and Orders; App. Div. denied motion, among other things, to vacate a prior order on motion dated July 24, 2024.

PEOPLE v TAPIA (FELIX) (230 AD3d 1009):
APL-2024-00173 1st Dept. App. Div. order of 9/19/24; affirmance; leave to appeal granted by Mendez, J., 12/2/24; Crimes--Suppression--Whether police had probable cause to arrest defendant; Supreme Court, New York County, convicted defendant of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, and imposed sentence; App. Div., with one Justice dissenting, affirmed.