People v Sostre
2013 NY Slip Op 07861 [111 AD3d 579]
November 26, 2013
Appellate Division, First Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, December 25, 2013


The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
v
Michael Sostre, Appellant.

—[*1] Robert S. Dean, Center for Appellate Litigation, New York (Jan Hoth of counsel), for appellant.

Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., District Attorney, New York (Patricia Curran of counsel), for respondent.

Appeal from judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (A. Kirke Bartley, Jr., J.), rendered January 19, 2011, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of two counts of assault in the first degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to concurrent terms of 12 years, unanimously dismissed, and the matter remanded to Supreme Court for proceedings to vacate the judgment and dismiss the indictment (see People v Matteson, 75 NY2d 745 [1989]; People v Mintz, 20 NY2d 753, 770 [1967]). Concur—Friedman, J.P., Renwick, Freedman and Feinman, JJ.

Motion seeking to abate appeal due to death granted.