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For April 11, 2025 through April 17, 2025, no new preliminary appeal statements were filed.

For April 18, 2025 through April 24, 2025, the following preliminary appeal statements were filed:

PEOPLE v AMBROSIO (JASON J.) (235 AD3d 1181):
APL-2025-00072 3rd Dept. App. Div. order of 2/27/25; affirmance; leave to appeal granted by Lynch, J., 4/7/25; Crimes—Right to Counsel—Whether trial counsel was ineffective for, among other things, failing to request a jury instruction defining "impairment" under Vehicle and Traffic Law § 1192 (4); whether the judgment of conviction was supported by legally sufficient evidence; County Court, Clinton County, upon a jury verdict convicting defendant of the crimes of driving while ability impaired by the combined influence of drugs and driving while ability impaired by drugs; County Court, Clinton County, revoked defendant's probation and imposed a sentence of imprisonment; App. Div. with one Justice dissenting in part, affirmed.

PEOPLE v GUERRERO (ERRICK) (235 AD3d 1276):
APL-2025-00069 4th Dept. App. Div. order of 2/7/25; affirmance; leave to appeal granted by Montour, J., 4/1/25; Crimes—Adolescent Offenders—Raise the Age—Whether the trial court abused its discretion in granting the People's motion under CPL 722.23(1)(b) based on the existence of "extraordinary circumstances" to prevent removal of defendant's case to Family Court; County Court, Onondaga County, convicted defendant, upon a jury verdict, of burglary in the first degree (two counts) and robbery in the first degree; App. Div., with one Justice dissenting, affirmed.

MATTER OF K.Y.Z. (228 AD3d 560):
APL-2025-00071 1st Dept. App. Div. order of 6/25/24; affirmance; leave to appeal granted by the Court of Appeals, 4/10/25; Parent, Child and Family--Termination of Parental Rights-- Whether agency made diligent efforts to encourage and strengthen parental relationship where a language barrier existed between parent and agency staff; Family Court, New York County, upon findings that father permanently neglected the subject child and that respondent mother was unable to care for the subject child presently and for the foreseeable future due to mental illness, terminated respondents' parental rights to the subject child and transferred the child's care and custody to petitioner agency and the Commissioner of Social Services of the City of New York for the purpose of adoption; App. Div. affirmed.

QUINONES GARCIA v MONADNOCK CONSTRUCTION (235 AD3d 96):
APL-2025-00074 1st Dept. App. Div. order of 1/9/25; reversal; leave to appeal granted by the Appellate Division on a certified question, 4/10/25; Statutes—Retroactive Application of Statute—Whether Justice for Injured Workers Act (L 2022, ch 835), which generally bars courts from giving collateral estoppel effect to findings and decisions by workers' compensation law judges and the Workers' Compensation Board, applies retroactively; Supreme Court, Bronx County, granted defendants' motion for leave to amend their answer to assert the affirmative defense of collateral estoppel and, upon amendment, for partial summary judgment dismissing plaintiff's claims of injury to his cervical and lumbar spine; App. Div. reversed and denied the motion.