PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release: May 25, 2007

Contact: William J. Smith (718) 556-7150
William.Smith@rcda.nyc.gov

D.A. Donovan Announces Swearing-In of ADA Morrie Kleinbart as New Bureau Chief of S.I. D.A.’s Appeals Bureau
***Kleinbart, 51, of Manhattan, Joins Staten Island D.A. after 20 years in New York County D.A.’s Office ***

      STATEN ISLAND, NY - Richmond County District Attorney Daniel M. Donovan, Jr. today announced the formal swearing-in of his office’s Bureau Chief of the Appeals Bureau, Assistant District Attorney Morrie I. Kleinbart. He is replacing former Assistant District Attorney Karen F. McGee who resigned from the office following 24 years of service.

     District Attorney Donovan stated, “I am delighted to welcome someone of Morrie Kleinbart’s caliber to my office. He is bringing a wealth of experience that will well serve the people of this community and ensure that our convictions are upheld when appeals occur.”

     "I'm extremely grateful to the District Attorney for giving me the opportunity to 'captain my own ship,' if you will,” stated ADA Kleinbart. “I am very excited about joining the office and look forward to vindicating the faith District Attorney Donovan has shown in me by appointing me chief of the Appeals Bureau."

     ADA Kleinbart, 51, a Manhattan resident, is a 1983 cum laude graduate of Touro College and earned a juris doctorate, with honors, from the Rutgers University School of Law – Newark, in 1986. He joined the Richmond County D.A.’s office earlier this month following 20 years of service with the New York County District Attorney’s office, beginning in August 1986. Since February 2000, ADA Kleinbart had served as Senior Appellate Counsel and Director of Habeas Corpus Legislation. Earlier, he had spent 4 years as Senior Appellate Counsel in Charge of Subpoena and Discovery Litigation Group.

     He is admitted to practice in New York and New jersey as well as before the United States Supreme Court , the United States District Court for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York and the District of New Jersey, and the Court of Appeals for the Second and Third Circuits.

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