Pfeiffer v. Hoffman

—Orders, Supreme Court, New York County (Emily Goodman, J.), entered on or about December 12, 1996 and December 19, 1996, which granted defendants’ motion in the first action to dismiss the complaint and granted defendants’ motion in the second action to dismiss the complaint, unanimously affirmed, with costs.

A cause of action for legal malpractice arising from negligent representation in a criminal proceeding may not be maintained where, as here, “the determination of [plaintiff’s] guilt of [the offense in connection with which he was allegedly negligently represented] remains undisturbed”…