People v Danvers
2008 NY Slip Op 07745 [55 AD3d 362]
October 14, 2008
Appellate Division, First Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, December 10, 2008


The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
v
Anthony Danvers, Appellant. The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Alvin Washington, Appellant.

[*1] Curtis J. Farber, New York, for appellants.

Robert M. Morgenthau, District Attorney, New York (Patricia Curran of counsel), for respondent.

Appeals from judgments, Supreme Court, New York County (Gregory Carro, J., on speedy trial motions; Edwin Torres, J., at jury trial and sentence), rendered March 27, 2007, convicting defendant Anthony Danvers of coercion in the first degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree and sentencing him to concurrent terms of 21/3 to 7 years and four years, and convicting defendant Alvin Washington of coercion in the first degree and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 3½ to 7 years, held in abeyance, and the matter remanded to the Administrative Judge of Supreme Court, New York County to schedule an expeditious hearing with respect to the issue of the knowing and intelligent consent of the [*2]respective defendants to joint representation by retained counsel Curtis Farber, including the waiver of any claims regarding potential conflicts of interest. Concur—Mazzarelli, J.P., Friedman, Nardelli, Williams and Freedman, JJ.