Opinion
Motion No: M-1137
05-23-2019
The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Russell Jenkins, Defendant-Appellant.
An order of this Court having been entered on November 1, 2016 (M-4783), inter alia, granting defendant poor person relief and assigning Seymour W. James, Jr., Esq., predecessor counsel to Janet E. Sabel, Esq., The Legal Aid Society, as counsel to prosecute defendant's appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Bronx County, rendered on or about February 18, 2016, And assigned counsel having moved for an order dismissing the appeal as abandoned, without prejudice to reinstatement at such time as defendant-appellant becomes amenable to the jurisdiction of this Court, 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deliberation having been had thereon,It is ordered that the motion is granted only to the extent of deeming the appeal withdrawn.
ENTERED: May 23, 2019
_____________________ CLERK
Present - Hon. David Friedman,Justice Presiding, Judith J. Gische Barbara R. Kapnick Troy K. Webber Ellen Gesmer, Justices
M-1137
Ind. No. 2547/14