Opinion
2022-61580 Ind. 1517/17
02-10-2022
The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Dennis Corcoran, Defendant-Appellant. Motion No. 2021-03874 No. 2018-691
Unpublished Opinion
MOTION DECISION 1
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 April 26, 2018 (M-1402), granting defendant leave to prosecute, as a poor person, the appeal taken from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Bronx County, rendered on or about October 04, 2017, 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 for an order abating the appeal by reason of appellant's death, and remanding the matter to Supreme Court to vacate the judgment of conviction, and to dismiss the indictment, 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 dismissing the appeal due to appellant's death on March 12, 2020, and remanding the matter to the Supreme Court, Bronx County, for further proceedings. 2