Citation Codes Equivalent Citations citation codes See more information ... Smart Summary Please sign up to generate summary. OPINION THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. OSCAR RODRIGUEZ, Appellant. Motion for leave to appeal denied. The Court of Appeals restates the rule that denial of a motion for leave to appeal is not equivalent to an affirmance and has no precedential value ( see, e.g, Matter of Marchant v. Mead-Morrison Mfg. Co., 252 N.Y. 284, 297-298). Motion for poor person relief dismissed as academic.