Opinion
2022-61163 Motion 2021-04396
02-01-2022
The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Shermaine Lewis, Defendant-Appellant. Ind. No. 4331/14 No. 2016-1593
Unpublished Opinion
MOTION DECISION
Present - Hon. Judith J. Gische, Justice Presiding, Cynthia S. Kern Tanya R. Kennedy Saliann Scarpulla Bahaati E. Pitt, Justices.
An order of this Court having been entered on September 1, 2016, (M-3661) granting defendant leave to prosecute, as a poor person, the appeal taken to this Court from the judgment of the Supreme Court, New York County, rendered on or about February 16, 2016, and assigning, Seymour W. James, Jr. Esq., predecessor to Janet E. Sabel, Esq., The Legal Aid Society, as counsel to prosecute the appeal, And assigned counsel having moved to be relieved, or in the alternative, for an order dismissing defendant's 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due deliberation having been had thereon, It is ordered that the motion is granted to the extent of deeming the appeal withdrawn, and otherwise denied.