Opinion
Motion No: M-428
03-27-2018
The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Stalin Alcantra, Defendant-Appellant.
An order of this Court having been entered on July 28, 2016, (M-2446), relieving Seymour W. Jones, Jr., Esq., The Legal Aid Society, as counsel to prosecute defendant's appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court, New York County, rendered on or about October 17, 2014, and assigning Richard M. Greenberg, Esq., predecessor chief counsel to Christina Swarns, Esq., at the Office of The Appellate Defender, as counsel to prosecute the appeal; and a motion having been made to relieve such counsel, or in the alternative, to dismiss the appeal, and for related relief, 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due deliberation having been had thereon, It is ordered that the motion is granted to the extent of deeming the appeal withdrawn, and is otherwise denied.
ENTERED: March 27, 2018
_____________________ CLERK
Present - Hon. David Friedman, Justice Presiding, Peter Tom Troy K. Webber Cynthia S. Kern,Justices
M-428
Ind. No. 2599