Opinion
Motion No. 2022-05193 Ind. No. 2726/15Case No. 2017-1455
02-09-2023
Unpublished Opinion
MOTION DECISION
Present - Hon. Barbara R. Kapnick, Cynthia S. Kern Ellen Gesmer Saliann Scarpulla Julio Rodriguez III, Justice Presiding, Justices.
An order of this Court having been entered on May 16, 2017 (M-2092) 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 November 02, 2016, and assigning Seymour W. James, 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due deliberation having been had thereon, It is ordered that the motion is granted to the extent of deeming the appeal withdrawn.