People v. Call

—Rose, J.

Appeal from a judgment of the County Court of Columbia County (Czajka, J.), rendered March 18, 1998, upon a verdict convicting defendant of the crimes of burglary in the second degree and petit larceny.

In pretrial proceedings on charges arising from defendant’s theft of $70 from his mother-in-law’s home, County Court denied defendant’s motion for recusal on the grounds that the Trial Judge had been District Attorney several years earlier when he was successfully prosecuted for assault in the second degree and resisting arrest and now issued a Sandoval compromise ruling which…