People v. Dean

Appeal from an order of the County Court of Greene County (Pulver, Jr., J.), entered August 30, 2000, which, inter alia, imposed a sanction against Dennis B. Schlenker.

Dennis B. Schlenker, a sole practitioner who, during the first half of calendar year 2000, was involved in various City, State and Federal trials, became particularly backlogged by his defense of a client in an Essex County capital murder case from September 1999 to March 2000. When he failed to show up for a June 13, 2000 initial conference in this criminal matter (hereinafter the Dean case), County Court issued an order…