Opinion
Motion No: M-270
04-09-2019
The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Jose A. Jerez, Defendant-Appellant.
An order of this Court having been entered on April 17, 2018 (M-576), granting defendant-appellant's application for leave to prosecute, as a poor person, the appeal taken from the judgment of the Supreme Court, New York County, rendered on or about September 23, 2014, and assigning Christina Swarns, Esq., Office of the Appellate Defender, as counsel to prosecute the appeal, And an order of this Court having been entered on November 1, 2018, denying defendant-appellant's pro se motion to relieve assigned counsel and substitute new counsel (M-4378), And defendant having, pro se, renewed his motion to relieve assigned counsel and substitute new counsel therefor, and for related relief, Now, upon reading and filing the papers with respect to the motion, and the correspondence from Jose A. Jerez, dated March 8, 2019 and March 10, 2019, and due deliberation having been had thereon,It is ordered that the motion is denied.
ENTERED: April 9, 2019
_____________________ CLERK
At a Term of the Appellate Division of the SupremeCourt held in and for the First Judicial Department in the County of New York on April 9, 2019.
Present - Hon. Rolando T. Acosta, Presiding Justice, Rosalyn H. Richter Sallie Manzanet-Daniels Peter Tom Peter H. Moulton, Justices
M-270
Ind. No. 2408/11