The Orange County District Attorney's Office has asked the Court of Appeals to eye a state appeals court's decision to throw out convictions for four defendants who were tried by an anonymous jury.

Last week, a panel of the Appellate Division, Second Department, threw out assault and firearms possession convictions and ordered a new trial for four men who participated in a brutal gang attack in 2009 in Newburgh.

Writing for the majority in a 3-1 decision, Justice John Leventhal said that Orange County Court Judge Nicholas DeRosa violated state law by empaneling an anonymous jury after reports of jury intimidation in the courthouse parking lot during the trial for the four men surfaced.