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For March 22, 2024 through March 28, 2024, the following preliminary appeal statements were filed:

NELLENBACK v MADISON COUNTY (223 AD3d 1025):
3rd Dept. App. Div. order of 1/11/24; affirmance; Judgments--Summary Judgment--Whether summary judgment was properly granted in defendant's favor dismissing plaintiff's negligent supervision claim; Supreme Court, Madison County, granted defendant's motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint; App. Div., with two Justices dissenting, affirmed.

THOMPSON v STATE OF NEW YORK (2024 NY Slip Op 60181[U]):
3rd Dept. App. Div. order of 1/5/24; denied motion; sua sponte examination of whether the order appealed from finally determines the proceeding within the meaning of the Constitution and whether any jurisdictional basis exists for an appeal as of right; Motions and Orders--Vacatur of Order; App. Div. denied motion to vacate dismissal of the appeal.

PEOPLE v BRENDA WW. (222 AD3d 1188):
3rd Dept. App. Div. order of 12/21/23; modification; leave to appeal granted by Pritzker, J., 2/20/24; Crimes--Sentence--Whether defendant established entitlement to resentencing under the Domestic Violence Survivors Justice Act (See CPL 440.47; Penal Law § 60.12); County Court, Madison County, denied defendant's motion for resentencing pursuant to CPL 440.47; App. Div. with two Justices dissenting, modified by reducing the sentence imposed on the conviction of manslaughter in the first degree to a prison term of eight years to be followed by five years of postrelease supervision, the sentence imposed for assault in the first degree to a prison term of eight years to be followed by five years of postrelease supervision, and the sentence imposed for criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree to a prison term of two years, which sentences shall run concurrently; remitted the matter to County Court for further proceedings pursuant to CPL 470.45; and, as so modified, affirmed.

PEOPLE v WATKINS (JERRY) (221 AD3d 1430):
4th Dept. App. Div. order of 11/17/23; affirmance; leave to appeal granted by Nowak, J., 2/29/24; Crimes--Unlawful Search and Seizure--Whether the courts below should have suppressed the loaded firearm that defendant was charged with possessing because police officers unlawfully pursued and arrested him; whether defendant's contentions are preserved; whether the people failed to establish a lawful predicate for the frisk or search of defendant by failing to call the officer who found the firearm; Supreme Court, Monroe County, convicted defendant upon a plea of guilty of criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree; App. Div., with two Justices dissenting, affirmed.