Opinion
2012-03-6
The PEOPLE, etc., ex rel. Michael W. WARREN, on behalf of Owen Hightower, petitioner, v. COMMISSIONER, NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, respondent.
Michael W. Warren, Brooklyn, N.Y., petitioner pro se. Richard A. Brown, District Attorney, Kew Gardens, N.Y. (John M. Castellano, Daniel Bresnahan, and Jessica L. Zellner of counsel), for respondent.
Michael W. Warren, Brooklyn, N.Y., petitioner pro se. Richard A. Brown, District Attorney, Kew Gardens, N.Y. (John M. Castellano, Daniel Bresnahan, and Jessica L. Zellner of counsel), for respondent.
Writ of habeas corpus in the nature of an application to set bail upon Queens County Indictment No. 1901/11.
ADJUDGED that the writ is sustained, without costs or disbursements, to the extent that bail on Queens County Indictment No. 1901/11 is set in 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 $500,000 as a cash bail alternative, and on the following conditions: (1) the defendant shall surrender his passport to the District Attorney of Queens County, and (2) the defendant shall remain within the State of New York.