PEOPLE EX REL. MEIS v. HORN

252377-09

26 Misc.3d 317 (2009)

888 N.Y.S.2d 392

2009 NY Slip Op 29432

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK ex rel. MEIS, on Behalf of SHAUN McMANUS, Petitioner, v. MARTIN F. HORN, Commissioner of the New York City Department of Corrections, et al., Respondents.

Supreme Court, Bronx County.

Decided October 23, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

The Bronx Defenders, Bronx (V. Marika Meis of counsel), for petitioner.

Robert T. Johnson, District Attorney, Bronx (Brian A. Reese of counsel), for relator.


OPINION OF THE COURT

MARTIN MARCUS, J.

In this matter, the petitioner is incarcerated on several charges for which cash only bail has been set. He seeks a writ of habeas corpus, asserting that he is being illegally detained because he has been denied his statutory right to two forms of bail.1 Having received papers from the petitioner and the People, and having heard both in...

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