Opinion
Motion No. 2023-03707 Ind. No. 615/15Case No. 2018-158
10-05-2023
The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Michael Pippins, Defendant-Appellant.
Unpublished Opinion
MOTION DECISION
Present - Hon. Ellen Gesmer, Justice Presiding, Tanya R. Kennedy, Julio Rodriguez III, Llinét M. Rosado, Justices.
An order of this Court having been entered on December 12, 2017 (M-5848) granting defendant leave to prosecute, as a poor person, the appeal taken to this Court from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Bronx County, rendered on or about June 13, 2017, and assigning Seymour W. James, Jr., Esq., as predecessor to Twyla Carter, Esq., The Legal Aid Society, as counsel to prosecute the appeal; and assigned counsel having moved this Court to be relieved as such counsel, or, in the alternative, to dismiss the appeal, 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due deliberation having been had thereon, It is ordered that the motion is granted to the extent of deeming the appeal withdrawn.