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For June 18, 2021 through June 24, 2021, the following preliminary appeal statements were filed:

HILL (RON), PEOPLE v (69 Misc 3d 145[A], 2020 NY Slip Op 51394[U]):
App. Term, 1st Dept. order of 11/20/20; affirmance; order granting leave by DiFiore, Ch.J., 6/4/21; Crimes--Controlled Substances--Whether the accusatory instrument charging defendant with criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree, for the possession of an unspecified synthetic cannabinoid, was jurisdictionally defective, given that not all synthetic cannabinoids are illegal in this state; Criminal Court of New York City, Bronx County, convicted defendant, upon his guilty plea, of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree, and imposed sentence; App. Term affirmed.

MATTER OF IRELYNN S. (188 AD3d 1744):
4th Dept., App. Div. order of 11/20/20; dismissal of appeal; leave to appeal granted by Court of Appeals, 4/29/21; Rule 500.11 review pending; Parent and Child-- Termination of Parental Rights--Whether father's failure to appear at the dispositional hearing constituted a default where attorney is present but elects not to participate in father's absence; Family Court, Onondaga County, among other things, terminated father's parental rights with respect to the child; App. Div. dismissed appeal.