The People, etc., ex rel. Stanley R. Kopilow, on behalf of Evan Potts, petitioner, v. Sheriff, Nassau County Jail, respondent. (2010)

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

The People, etc., ex rel. Stanley R. Kopilow, on behalf of Evan Potts, petitioner, v. Sheriff, Nassau County Jail, respondent.

2010-09767 (Ind.No. 1333 /10)

Decided: October 08, 2010

WILLIAM F. MASTRO, J.P. JOHN M. LEVENTHAL L. PRISCILLA HALL PLUMMER E. LOTT, JJ.

Stanley R. Kopilow, Garden City, N.Y., petitioner pro se. Kathleen Rice, District Attorney, Mineola, N.Y. (Matthew Lampert of counsel), for respondent.

Argued-October 8, 2010

DECISION & JUDGMENT

Writ of habeas corpus in the nature of an application to reduce bail upon Nassau County Indictment No. 1333/10.

ADJUDGED that the writ is sustained, without costs or disbursements, to the extent of reducing bail on Nassau County Indictment No. 1333/10 from the sum of $750,000 bond with a cash bail alternative of $500,000, to the sum of $500,000, which may be posted in the form of an insurance company bail bond in that sum or by depositing the sum of $250,000 as a cash bail alternative; in the event that the bail of $500,000, which was previously set, has not been exonerated and returned to the person who posted it, then, the bail already posted shall satisfy the $500,000 bail required.

MASTRO, J.P., LEVENTHAL, HALL and LOTT, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

Matthew G. Kiernan

Clerk of the Court

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