DEATH PENALTY LAWYER TAKES MCCALL POST.(CAPITAL REGION)

Byline: MELISSA GRACE Staff writer

Albany Albany's top death penalty attorney is moving to a new job -- top lawyer for the state comptroller's office.

First Deputy Capital Defender Randolph Treece starts as general counsel for Comptroller H. Carl McCall Feb. 25.

Treece, who took the $97,061 job heading the Albany Capital Defender Office in September 1995, said he's moving because it's a job he couldn't pass up.

``This is an opportunity of a lifetime, to work with a very important public servant . . . on new and diverse issues that …