Bindinglaw

NY · rules

22 NYCRR 510.7

Poor person relief; assignment of counsel

activein force · 2026-09-17 – presentact-effective-date

The following procedures shall apply in all capital appeals except those appeals taken pursuant to C PL 460.40(3) from an order of a superior court granting or denying a motion for a stay of execution.

(a) Where sought, trial counsel shall move, pursuant to section 510.12 of this Part, for assignment of appellate counsel or other items of poor person relief within 10 days after the filing of the notice of appeal. The motion papers shall include an affidavit setting forth the information required by CPLR 1101(a). On an appeal in a case in which Judiciary Law, section 35-b provides for the assignment of appellate counsel, trial counsel's affidavit shall also state whether counsel is requesting to be considered for assignment as counsel on the appeal.

(b) Where the appeal is taken from a judgment including a sentence of death pursuant to C PL 450.70(1), assigned counsel may move at any time pursuant to section 510.12 of this Part for assignment of associate counsel for good cause shown.

(c) Assignment of counsel shall proceed in compliance with any applicable Court of Appeals directives on the matter.

Provenance

Source
law.cornell.edu
Retrieved
2026-09-17
Edition
2026-09-17
Content hash
f06211735cb682d5bd2b83259abe00467e72a62a5acddc704173b4fef70ffc81
View the official source →

The link goes to the issuing authority’s own document — the one we read to produce this record. Where a source publishes whole titles rather than sections, your browser may need a moment to jump to the provision.

Unofficial copy of government-published law, reproduced from official sources with full provenance. Not an official publication; verify against official sources before relying on it in a filing. Records in the 'guidance' corpus, and only that corpus, are sub-regulatory (interpretive guidelines, survey procedures) and are not binding law. Validity bounds follow each jurisdiction's declared temporalBasis.

Coverage · API docs

Bindinglaw

Point-in-time US law with the receipt attached. Source URL, retrieval time, content hash, and validity dates on every answer.

curl api.binding.law/v1/law/coverage

© 2026 binding.law · a Jubal, Inc. productAttorneys and firms never pay. Ever.