Opinion
Motion No. 2023-04573 Ind. No. 3007/17 Case No. 2019-3182
05-14-2024
The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Arnold Makai, Defendant-Appellant.
Unpublished Opinion
MOTION DECISION
PRESENT: Hon. Cynthia S. Kern, Justice Presiding, Barbara R. Kapnick Saliann Scarpulla Bahaati E. Pitt-Burke John R. Higgitt, Justices.
An order of this Court having been entered on October 04, 2018 (M-3951) 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 November 20, 2017, and assigning Justine M. Luongo, Esq., 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 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due deliberation having been had thereon, It is ordered that the motion is granted to the extent of deeming the appeal withdrawn.