In re Richard S.

In a proceeding pursuant to CPL 330.20 (9) for a second retention order, the petitioner, Commissioner of the New York State Office of *497Mental Health, appeals, by permission, (1), as limited by his brief, from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, Orange County (Paño Z. Patsalos, J.), dated December 15, 1999, as, after a hearing, granted the petition only to the extent of directing the continued retention of Richard S. in a less secure facility, (2) from a transfer order of the same court, dated December 29, 1999, which directed that Richard S. be transferred from a secure to a nonsecure…