Nos. 30, 31. Argued February 7, 2008. Decided March 18, 2008. APPEAL, in the first above-entitled action, by permission of an Associate Judge of the Court of Appeals, from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the First Judicial Department, entered March 27, 2007. The Appellate Division granted the People's motion to dismiss defendant's appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court, New York County (Stephen G. Crane, J.), which had convicted defendant in absentia, upon a jury verdict
Argued March 26, 1981 Decided April 28, 1981 Appeal from the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the Second Judicial Department, W. EUGENE SHARPE, J. Stephen R. Mahler and Andrew M. Engel for appellant. John J. Santucci, District Attorney (Aley Z. Alexander of counsel), for respondent. MEMORANDUM. The order of the Appellate Division should be reversed, the plea vacated, the statement suppressed and the matter should be remitted to the Supreme Court, Queens County, for further proceedings.
(a) Placing cause on general calendar. An appeal may be placed on the general calendar by filing with the clerk the record on appeal pursuant to one of the methods set forth in section 670.9 of this Part by filing nine copies of a brief, with proof of service of two copies upon each of the other parties. Unless the court shall otherwise direct, when an appeal is prosecuted upon the original record, only one copy of the brief need by served. An extra copy of the statement required by CPLR 5531 shall