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For June 6, 2025 through June 12, 2025, the following preliminary appeal statements were filed:

PEOPLE v BILLUPS (RICKY) (233 AD3d 492):
APL-2025-00108 1st Dept. App. Div. order of 12/10/24; affirmance; leave to appeal granted by Rivera, J., 5/30/25; Crimes—Sentence—Concurrent and Consecutive Terms—Whether the sentence for criminal possession of a weapon was properly run consecutively to sentences for other crimes under Penal Law § 70.25 (2) and People v Brown (21 NY3d 739 [2013]); Supreme Court, New York County, convicted defendant of murder in the second degree, robbery in the first and second degrees, and criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, and sentenced defendant as a second violent felony offender to an aggregate prison term of 40 years to life; App. Div. affirmed.

PEOPLE v MEYERS (JOSEPH A.) (236 AD3d 1499):
APL-2025-00109 4th Dept. App. Div. order of 3/21/25; affirmance; leave to appeal granted by Whalen, P.J., 5/27/25; Crimes—Appeal—Whether the reconstruction hearing was adequate to protect defendant's right of appeal; whether the reconstruction court erred in denying defendant's motion to, among other things, compel the People to provide him with copies of or access to original trial exhibits that had been returned to the People following trial; County Court, Steuben County, convicted defendant upon a jury verdict of, among other things, two counts of arson in the first degree, one count of murder in the second degree, and one count of murder in the first degree; App. Div., with one Justice dissenting, affirmed.

PEOPLE v MULLER (VICTORIA) (84 Misc 3d 127[A], 2024 NY Slip Op 51425[U]):
APL-2025-00107 1st Dept. App. Term order of 10/18/24; affirmance; leave to appeal granted by Wilson, Ch. J., 5/28/25; Crimes—Obstructing Governmental Administration—Whether the accusatory instrument charging defendant with obstructing governmental administration was facially sufficient to allege that defendant physically interfered with governmental administration and that defendant's conduct obstructed an official function; Crimes—Jurors—Selection of Jury—whether the trial court erred in rejecting defendant's Batson challenge (476 US 79 [1986]); Criminal Court, City of New York, Bronx County, after a jury trial, convicted defendant of obstructing governmental administration in the second degree and resisting arrest, and imposed sentence; App. Div. affirmed.

REISMAN v GENTLES (2025 NY Slip Op 68059[U]):
APL-2025-00113 2nd Dept. App. Div. order of 5/5/25; dismissal; 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; Appeal—Dismissal; Family Court, Nassau County, denied respondent's objections to an order of the Support Magistrate; App. Div., on its own motion, dismissed the appeal and declined to grant leave to appeal.