Case ID: ad3d_63/html/1671-05.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Gerri L. Bunnell, Appellant.
    [879 NYS2d 801]
   Motion for reargument and other relief granted to the extent that, upon reargument, the memorandum and order entered February 6, 2009 (59 AD3d 942 [2009]) is amended by adding the following sentences before the last sentence of the memorandum: “It cannot be said that the procedure utilized by the court is authorized by People v Fuller (57 NY2d 152 [1982]). Indeed, the court attorney did not act merely as a ‘preliminary fact finder’ (id. at 158) but, rather, he conducted an adversarial hearing and made credibility determinations, thereby assuming a role specifically limited to the authority of the court (see Penal Law § 60.27 [2]; Fuller, 57 NY2d at 158-159).” Present—Smith, J.P, Centra, Peradotto and Gorski, JJ.