Opinion
Motion No. 2023-01107 Ind. No. 3707/16Case No. 2017-1307
04-20-2023
The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Nicholas Lawhorn, Defendant-Appellant.
Unpublished Opinion
MOTION DECISION
Present - Hon. Dianne T. Renwick, Jeffrey K. Oing Tanya R. Kennedy Martin Shulman Bahaati E. Pitt-Burke, Acting Presiding Justice, Justices.
An order of this Court having been entered on May 16, 2017 (M-2095) granting defendant leave to prosecute, as a poor person, the appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court, New York County, rendered on or about November 03, 2016, and assigning Seymour W. James, Jr., Esq., as predecessor to Twyla Carter, Esq., The Legal Aid Society, Esq., as counsel to prosecute the appeal; and a motion having been made by assigned counsel to be relieved, 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due deliberation having been had thereon, It is ordered that the motion is granted to the extent of deeming the appeal withdrawn.