Opinion
Motion No. 2023-02450 Ind. No. 4081/14No. 2017-2730
07-27-2023
The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Fuad Ahmed, Defendant-Appellant.
Unpublished Opinion
MOTION DECISION
Present - Hon. Troy K. Webber, Cynthia S. Kern Jeffrey K. Oing David Friedman Peter H. Moulton, Justice Presiding, Justices.
An order of this Court having been entered on October 17, 2017 (M-4889) granting defendant leave to prosecute, as a poor person, the appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court, New York County, rendered on or about December 13, 2016, 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 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due deliberation having been had thereon, It is ordered that the motion is granted to the extent of deeming the appeal withdrawn.