Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, 1976

People ex rel. Mitchell v. McNulty

People ex rel. Mitchell v. McNulty
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York · Decided June 18, 1976
53 A.D.2d 790; 385 N.Y.S.2d 150; 1976 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 13580
People ex rel. Mitchell v. McNulty

Opinion of the Court

Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court at Special Term, entered June 4, 1976 in Albany County, which sustained a writ of habeas corpus and reduced the amount of petitioner’s bail fixed by the County Court from $100,000 to $35,000. On the record of *791this case, habeas corpus relief was appropriate (People ex rel. Klein v Krueger, 25 NY2d 497; People ex rel. Lobell v McDonnell, 296 NY 109; People ex rel. Zinzow v Harkness, 48 AD2d 746). The judgment of Special Term must be affirmed, as there is a constitutionally rational basis for its determination (People ex rel. Cooke v McNulty, 48 AD2d 586; People ex rel. Goines v Howard, 41 AD2d 683). Judgment affirmed, without costs. Koreman, P. J., Sweeney, Kane, Mahoney and Larkin, JJ., concur.

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