PEOPLE EX REL IGBOKWE v. WARDEN OF RIKERS ISLAND CORRECTIONAL FACILITY (2024)

Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Second Department, New York.

The PEOPLE, etc., EX REL. O. Williams IGBOKWE, on behalf of Clarence Samuel, petitioner, v. WARDEN OF RIKERS ISLAND CORRECTIONAL FACILITY, respondent.

2024–03145

Decided: May 13, 2024

FRANCESCA E. CONNOLLY, J.P., LARA J. GENOVESI, BARRY E. WARHIT, LILLIAN WAN, JJ.

Igbokwe, PLLC, New York, NY (O. Williams Igbokwe pro se of counsel), for petitioner. Eric Gonzalez, District Attorney, Brooklyn, NY (Leonard Joblove, Morgan J. Dennehy, and Alejandro Vera of counsel), for respondent.

DECISION & JUDGMENT

Writ of habeas corpus in the nature of an application to release Clarence Samuel upon his own recognizance or, in the alternative, to set reasonable bail upon Kings County Indictment No. 70428/2023.

ADJUDGED that the writ is dismissed, without costs or disbursements.

The Supreme Court, Kings County, did not abuse its discretion in modifying the bail conditions (see CPL 530.60[1]; see also People ex rel. Rankin v Brann, ––– NY3d ––––, 2024 N.Y. Slip Op 00850; People ex rel. Chorny v. Toulon, ––– AD3d ––––, 2024 N.Y. Slip Op 02493 [2d Dept]).

CONNOLLY, J.P., GENOVESI, WARHIT and WAN, JJ., concur.

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