Opinion
Motion No. 2024-01843 SCI. No. 900/20Case No. 2020-04781
05-30-2024
The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Derek Faris, Defendant-Appellant.
Unpublished Opinion
MOTION DECISION
Present - Hon. Dianne T. Renwick, Presiding Justice, David Friedman Tanya R. Kennedy Bahaati E. Pitt-Burke Marsha D. Michael, Justices.
An order of this Court having been entered on January 14, 2021 (Motion No. 2020-03976) granting defendant leave to prosecute, as a poor person, the appeal taken to this Court from a judgment of the Supreme Court, New York County, rendered on or about November 04, 2020, and assigning Janet E. Sabel, 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due deliberation having been had thereon, It is ordered that the motion is granted to the extent of deeming the appeal withdrawn.