Opinion
11-14-2017
The PEOPLE, etc., ex rel. Debora SILBERMAN, on behalf of Mordecai Omatiga, petitioner, v. DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, et al., respondents.
Brooklyn Defender Services, Brooklyn, NY (Debora Silberman pro se of counsel and Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP [Alejandro G. Ortega ], of counsel), for petitioner. Eric Gonzalez, Acting District Attorney, Brooklyn, NY (Jingu Chong of counsel), for respondents.
Brooklyn Defender Services, Brooklyn, NY (Debora Silberman pro se of counsel and Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP [Alejandro G. Ortega ], of counsel), for petitioner.
Eric Gonzalez, Acting District Attorney, Brooklyn, NY (Jingu Chong of counsel), for respondents.
Writ of habeas corpus in the nature of an application to release the defendant on his own recognizance or for bail reduction upon Kings County Indictment No. 01154/17.
ADJUDGED that the writ is sustained, without costs or disbursements, to the extent that bail on Kings County Indictment No. 01154/17 is reduced to the sum of $50,000 which may be posted in the form of an insurance company bail bond in that sum or by depositing the sum of $25,000 as a cash bail alternative, and the writ is otherwise dismissed; and it is further,
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 $50,000 or has deposited the sum of $25,000 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.
HALL, J.P., HINDS–RADIX, MALTESE and IANNACCI, JJ., concur.