Opinion
Motion No. 2024-00004 Ind. No. 1097/16No. 2018-1548
02-15-2024
The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Thomas Hently, Defendant-Appellant.
Unpublished Opinion
MOTION DECISION
Present - Hon. Cynthia S. Kern, Justice Presiding, Lizbeth González Martin Shulman John R. Higgitt Llinét M. Rosado, Justices.
An order of this Court having been entered on October 19, 2017 (M-5053) granting defendant leave to prosecute, as a poor person, the appeal taken to this Court from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Bronx County, rendered on or about December 06, 2016, and assigning Seymour W. James, Jr., Esq., as predecessor to Twyla Carter, Esq., 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 with 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due deliberation having been had thereon, It is ordered that the motion is granted to the extent of deeming the appeal withdrawn.