Opinion
Motion No. 2023-01543 Ind. No. 2752/16No. 2017-2060
05-18-2023
The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Jorge Acosta, Defendant-Appellant.
Unpublished Opinion
MOTION DECISION
Present - Hon. Sallie Manzanet-Daniels, Justice Presiding, Jeffrey K. Oing David Friedman Martin Shulman Bahaati E. Pitt-Burke, Justices.
An order of this Court having been entered on July 25, 2017 (M-3154) granting defendant leave to prosecute, as a poor person, the appeal taken from a judgment of the Supreme Court, New York County, rendered on or about November 21, 2016, and assigning Seymour W. James, Jr., Esq., predecessor to Twyla Carter, Esq., The Legal Aid Society, 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due deliberation having been had thereon, It is ordered that the motion is granted to the extent of deeming the appeal withdrawn.