Opinion
Motion No: M-1521
04-23-2019
The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Kaazim Cooper, also known as Kazzim Cooper, Defendant-Appellant.
An order of this Court having been entered on January 14, 2016 (M-6351), inter alia, granting defendant leave to prosecute the appeal taken from the judgment of the Supreme Court, New York County, rendered on or about August 14, 2015, as a poor person, and assigning Richard Greenberg, Esq., predecessor to Christina Swarns, Esq., the Office of the Appellate Defender, as counsel to prosecute the appeal, and said appeal having been perfected. And assigned counsel having moved to be relieved as counsel for defendant and for assignment of successor counsel, 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 denied, without prejudice to defendant-appellant filing a pro se supplemental brief, if so advised, on or before August 5, 2019 for the October 2019 Term, to which Term the appeal is adjourned.Upon defendant's request, the Clerk of the Court is directed to forward to the Warden at the State correctional facility wherein defendant is incarcerated a transcript of the minutes relating to defendant's appeal, said transcript to be made available to appellant and returned by appellant to this Court when submitting the pro se supplemental brief hereto. The appeal will not be heard unless and until all material furnished to appellant has been returned.
ENTERED: April 23, 2019
_____________________ CLERK
Present - Hon. John W. Sweeny, Jr., Justice Presiding, Sallie Manzanet-Daniels Peter Tom Barbara R. Kapnick Peter H. Moulton, Justices
M-1521
Ind. No. 4753/13