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For June 1, 2018 through June 7, 2018, the following preliminary appeal statements were filed:

GARLAND (TAMARKQUA), PEOPLE v (155 AD3d 527):
1st Dept. App. Div. order of 11/28/17; affirmance; leave to appeal granted by Manzanet-Daniels, J., 5/30/18; Crimes--Verdict--Sufficiency of Evidence--Whether evidence was legally sufficient to establish that complainant suffered a serious physical injury, as required for assault in the first degree convictions, where complainant testified that, four years after he was struck by bullet, he still felt bullet fragments in his leg, experienced pain, and could not engage in sports at the same level as before the incident; Right to Speedy Trial--whether defendant met burden of demonstrating that People's statement of readiness was illusory; Supreme Court, Bronx County, convicted defendant of two counts of assault in the first degree and one count of criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree; App. Div. affirmed.

KOSMIDER, MATTER OF v WHITNEY (160 AD3d 1151):
3rd Dept. App. Div. order of 4/12/18; affirmance with dissents; Records-- Freedom of Information Law--Whether electronic images of ballots cast in an election are accessible under the Freedom of Information Law (Public Officers Law art 6 [FOIL])--exemption from disclosure of certain documents under Election Law § 3-222 (2); elections--ballots; Supreme Court, Erie County, among other things, granted petitioner's CPLR article 78 application to annul a determination of respondent Chairperson of the Essex County Board of Supervisors denying petitioner's FOIL request; App. Div. affirmed.

MENDOZA (DAVID), PEOPLE v (155 AD3d 652):
2nd Dept. App. Div. order of 11/1/17; affirmance; leave to appeal granted by DiFiore, Ch.J., 5/16/18; Crimes--Right to Counsel--Effective Representation-- Whether defendant was denied the effective assistance of counsel when his attorney advanced a jury nullification defense at trial; Supreme Court, Kings County, convicted defendant, upon a jury verdict, of two counts of burglary in the second degree and two counts of petit larceny, and imposed sentence; App. Div. affirmed.