Opinion
Motion No. 2023-00239 Ind. No. 92/18 Case No. 2018-4741
03-09-2023
The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Melissa Hill, also known as Melissa Bennett, Defendant-Appellant.
Unpublished Opinion
PRESENT: Hon. Rolando T. Acosta, Presiding Justice, Cynthia S. Kern Ellen Gesmer Saliann Scarpulla Julio Rodriguez III, Justices.
An order of this Court having been entered on February 19, 2019 (M-6372) granting defendant leave to prosecute, as a poor person, the appeal taken from a judgment of the Supreme Court, New York County, rendered on or about June 27, 2018, and assigning Janet E. Sabel, Esq., 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due deliberation having been had thereon, It is ordered that the motion is granted to the extent of deeming the appeal withdrawn.