Opinion
2022-62099 Motion 2022-00169
02-24-2022
The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Alberto Guzman-Caba, Defendant-Appellant. SCI No. 348N/14 No. 2015-2126
Unpublished Opinion
MOTION DECISION
PRESENT: HON. JUDITH J. GISCHE, JUSTICE PRESIDING, TROY K. WEBBER JEFFREY K. OING MANUEL J. MENDEZ BAHAATI E. PITT, JUSTICES.
An order of this Court having been entered on June 16, 2015 (M-1181) granting defendant leave to prosecute, as a poor person, the appeal taken from the judgment of the Supreme Court, New York County, rendered on or about March 17, 2014, and assigning Robert S. Dean, Esq., Center for Appellate Litigation, as counsel to prosecute the appeal; and a motion having been made to relieve such counsel, to substitute retained counsel, 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 striking the designation of Robert S. Dean, Esq., Center for Appellate Litigation, as assigned counsel, and is otherwise denied as unnecessary. Defendant may perfect the appeals taken from the aforesaid judgment, rendered on or about March 17, 2014, and from the order, same Court, entered on or about March 30, 2021, on one brief and record.