PEOPLE EX REL WATTS v. WARDEN OTIS BANTUM CORRECTIONAL CENTER (2024)

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

The PEOPLE, etc., EX REL. Gregory S. WATTS, on behalf of Walter Porter, petitioner, v. WARDEN, OTIS BANTUM CORRECTIONAL CENTER, respondent.

2024-08768

Decided: September 23, 2024

BETSY BARROS, J.P., ROBERT J. MILLER, WILLIAM J. FORD, DEBORAH A. DOWLING, JJ.

Watts & Watts, Brooklyn, NY (Gregory S. Watts pro se of counsel), for petitioner. Eric Gonzalez, District Attorney, Brooklyn, NY (Leonard Joblove, Morgan J. Dennehey, Jonathan Visotzky, and Matthew Perry of counsel), for respondent.

DECISION & JUDGMENT

Writ of habeas corpus in the nature of an application to release Walter Porter upon his own recognizance or, in the alternative, to set reasonable bail upon Kings County Indictment No. 1199/2019.

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

The Supreme Court, Kings County, did not abuse its discretion in remanding the principal, Walter Porter, pursuant to CPL 530.60(2)(b) (see CPL 530.60[2][b][iv]; see also People ex rel. Rankin v. Brann, 41 N.Y.3d 436, 211 N.Y.S.3d 811, 235 N.E.3d 343).

BARROS, J.P., MILLER, FORD and DOWLING, JJ., concur.

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