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The Fourth Department of the Appellate Division holds jurisdiction over 22 counties in Central and Western New York State, and includes the cities of Buffalo, Rochester, and Syracuse. Geographically, the Fourth Department extends from the St. Lawrence River in the north to the Pennsylvania border in the south and from the Mohawk Valley in the ...
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York is the intermediate appellate court in New York State. [2] The state is geographically divided into four judicial departments of the Appellate Division. [3] The full title of each is, using the "Fourth Department" as an example, the "Supreme Court of the State of New York ...
Also served as Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals. Domenick L. Gabrielli. 1973–1982. Republican/ Conservative. James Gibson. 1969–1972. Nelson A. Rockefeller, Republican. Also served as Presiding Justice of Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, Third Judicial Department. John Clinton Gray.
New York City has a cap of 171 justices (and only some of the New York Supreme Court justices in New York City serve in trial parts, with others assigned to the Appellate Division or the Appellate Term). [46] As a result, New York City has too few judges to handle New York City's caseload, which is more than 100,000 cases annually; the ...
In the Federal court system and in nearly all other U.S. states, the court of last resort is known as the "Supreme Court". New York, however, calls its lower courts the "Supreme Court" – consisting of the trial court and the intermediate appellate court, known as the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court – and the court of last resort the Court of Appeals.
The New York State Court of Appeals is the state's highest court. In civil cases, appeals are taken almost exclusively from decisions of the Appellate Divisions. In criminal cases, depending on the type of case and the part of the state in which it arose, appeals can be heard from decisions of the Appellate Division, the Appellate Term, and the County Court.
Martoche served as a New York State Supreme Court justice for 13 years from January 2000 until his retirement. He was designated to serve on the New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division Fourth Department on May 3, 2004, by Governor George Pataki.
Wesley's judicial career began with his election to the New York State Supreme Court in 1986. He served as a trial judge on the Supreme Court from 1987 to 1994, when he was appointed to the Appellate Division. He was an associate justice of New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Fourth Judicial Department from 1994 to 1996.