Meralla v. Goldenberg

Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Mary Ann BriganttiHughes, J.), entered September 12, 2013, which, to the extent appealed from as limited by the briefs, denied defendant’s cross motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

In this legal malpractice action, plaintiff alleges that defendant attorney’s failure to move to sever plaintiffs criminal trial from that of a codefendant, and to move to exclude certain evidence based on the collateral estoppel effect of a prior trial in which plaintiff was acquitted of a related crime, caused him to be…