Opinion
Motion No. 2023-03821 Ind. No. 1214/15Case No. 2017-1132
10-10-2023
The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Thomas Leggette, Defendant-Appellant.
Unpublished Opinion
MOTION DECISION
Present - Hon. Barbara R. Kapnick, Justice Presiding, Cynthia S. Kern Peter H. Moulton Bahaati E. Pitt-Burke Kelly O'Neill Levy, Justices.
An order of this Court having been entered on April 18, 2017 (M-1598) granting defendant leave to prosecute, as a poor person, the appeal taken to this Court from a judgment of the Supreme Court, New York County, rendered on or about September 01, 2016, and assigning Seymour W. James, Jr., as 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, 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due deliberation having been had thereon, It is ordered that the motion is granted to the extent of deeming the appeal withdrawn.