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For April 1, 2022 through April 7, 2022 , the following preliminary appeal statements were filed:

PEOPLE v BA (MAMADOU) (73 Misc 3d 148[A], 2022 NY Slip Op 50004[U]):
App. Term, 1st Dept. order of 1/7/22; modification and affirmance; leave to appeal granted by Rivera, J., 3/24/22; Crimes--Sentence--Whether Appellate Term improperly rejected a request to reduce a sentence in the interest of justice because the sentence was not illegally high and the result of a negotiated plea; Criminal Court, New York City, convicted defendant, upon his guilty plea, of unlicensed general vending and sentenced him to a $500 fine and a $250 surcharge; App. Term, 1st Dept., modified to reduce the $250 surcharge to $200, and otherwise affirmed.

PEOPLE v MYERS (MICHAEL) (198 AD3d 1373):
4th Dept. App. Div. order of 10/8/21; affirmance; leave to appeal granted by Singas, J., 3/24/22; Crimes--Suppression Hearing--Whether statements made by defendant should have been suppressed on the ground that the People failed to comply with the notice requirement of CPL 700.70; whether a phone conversation is an "intercepted communication" under CPL 700.50 (3) (a) if the conversation is simultaneously overheard on a government wiretap and recorded by a third party with consent from a caller other than the defendant to record the call; whether evidence is "derived [ ] from" an intercepted communication such that it triggers CPL 700.70's notice requirements; County Court, Onondaga County, convicted defendant, upon a jury verdict, of leaving the scene of an incident resulting in death without reporting; App. Div. affirmed.

For April 8, 2022 through April 14, 2022 , the following preliminary appeal statements were filed:

MATTER OF COREY O. (— AD3d —, 2022 NY Slip Op 02044):
3rd Dept. App. Div. order of 3/24/22; affirmance with two Justices dissenting; sua sponte examination of whether the dissent at the Appellate Division is on a question of law; Judges--Disqualification--Whether the attorney for the children was disqualified under Judiciary Law §17 when the attorney was previously a judge who decided a prior custody case involving mother; Family Court, Broome County, among other things, granted petitioner's application, in proceeding No. 1 pursuant to Family Court Act article 6, for custody of the parties' child and granted petitioner's application in proceeding No. 2 pursuant to Family Court Act article 6, to modify a prior order of custody; App. Div. affirmed.

SCURRY v NYCHA:
2nd Dept. App. Div. order of 1/27/22; affirmance; leave granted by the Appellate Division with certified question 4/1/22; Negligence--Maintenance of Premises-- Whether defendant property owner's negligence was proximate cause of decedent's death and injuries to others; decedent killed in targeted attack at premises where front door lacked functioning door lock; Supreme Court, Kings County, denied defendant's motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint; App. Div. affirmed.