Opinion
Motion No. 2022-0 Ind. No. 3394/15Case No. 2017-903
02-16-2023
The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Michael Bell, Defendant-Appellant.
Unpublished Opinion
MOTION DECISION
Present - Hon. Barbara R. Kapnick, Justice Presiding, Cynthia S. Kern Ellen Gesmer Saliann Scarpulla Julio Rodriguez III, Justices.
An order of this Court having been entered on February 28, 2017 (M-6028) granting defendant leave to prosecute, as a poor person, the appeal taken from the judgment of the Supreme Court, New York County, rendered on or about February 24, 2016, and assigning Rosemary Herbert, Esq., predecessor to Caprice R. Jenerson, Esq., Office of the Appellate Defender, as counsel to prosecute the appeal; and assigned counsel having moved to be relieved as such counsel, or in the alternative, to dismiss the appeal without prejudice, Now, upon reading and filing the papers with respect to the motion, and due deliberation having been had thereon, It is ordered that the motion is granted to the extent of deeming the appeal withdrawn.