People ex rel. Meltzer v Kings County Dist. Attorney

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People ex rel. Meltzer v Kings County Dist. Attorney 2012 NY Slip Op 07853 Decided on November 19, 2012 Appellate Division, Second Department Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law ยง 431. This opinion is uncorrected and subject to revision before publication in the Official Reports.

Decided on November 19, 2012
SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORKAPPELLATE DIVISION : SECOND JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT
WILLIAM F. MASTRO, J.P.
PLUMMER E. LOTT
SHERI S. ROMAN
JEFFREY A. COHEN, JJ.
2012-09891 DECISION, ORDER & JUDGMENT

[*1]The People of the State of New York, ex rel. Stuart Meltzer, on behalf of Austroberto Portilla, petitioner,

v

Kings County District Attorney, et al., respondents. Stuart Meltzer, Brooklyn, N.Y., petitioner pro se.




Charles J. Hynes, District Attorney, Brooklyn, N.Y. (Daniel
Sanchez pro se of counsel), respondent pro se and for respondent Daniel
Sanchez.
Writ of habeas corpus in the nature of an application on behalf
of Austroberto Portilla for bail reduction upon Queens County IDV
Nos. 205985V/11, 20596V/11, 20597V/11, and 20603V/11.

ADJUDGED that the writ is sustained, without costs or disbursements, to the extent of reducing bail for Austroberto Portilla on each of the above-listed IDV numbers to the sum of $2,000, which may be posted in the form of an insurance company bail bond in that sum or by depositing the sum of $1,000 as a cash bail alternative, for a total bail of $8,000, which may be posted in the form of an insurance company bail bond in that sum or by depositing the sum of $4,000 as a cash bail alternative.

ORDERED that upon receipt of a copy of this decision, order and judgment together with proof that the defendant has given an insurance company bail bond in the amount of $8,000 or has deposited the sum of $4,000 as a cash bail alternative, the Warden of the facility at which the defendant is incarcerated, or his or her agent, is directed to immediately release the defendant.
MASTRO, J.P., LOTT, ROMAN and COHEN, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

Aprilanne Agostino

Clerk of the Court

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