defendant at the arraignment," recognizes the frequent practice of appointing a presently available lawyer to assist a number of defendants in determining the proper plea at the arraignment. Then after the arraignment the court may appoint other counsel to represent the defendants in the trial of their respective cases.
Before the indigent defender was allowed to make her motion, the record shows a bench conference was held off the record, with all counselors present. At oral argument, the indigent defender made an unrebutted representation that during the bench conference, Judge Marullo appointed her for the limited purpose of representing defendant at the hearing on November 10, 2010. While acknowledging the appointment is not on the record, the indigent defender asserted Judge Marullo allowed her to make the motion onTHAT MEAN OLD MAN’S HOUSE: Cheerful schoolgirls yesterday stroll past the high-walled compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, where Osama bin Laden was killed by United States special forces in the early hours on Monday. Photo: AFP/Getty Images

Slain al Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden was plotting to derail American trains on the 10th anniversary of 9/11, documents seized from his Pakistani hideout reveal, officials said yesterday.

The plot — which indicates bin Laden was intimately involved with planning attacks right up until his death — was to sabotage the rails, forcing trains off the tracks on a bridge or over a chasm, the documents show.

A senior homeland-security official told The Post this morning that there is no plan to raise the terror-alert level because, he insisted, the rail plot was far