Opinion
Motion No: M-7059
10-24-2019
An order of this Court having been entered on November 30, 2017 (M-4714) granting defendant leave to prosecute, as a poor person, the appeal taken from the judgment of the Supreme Court, New York County, rendered on or about May 12, 2011, and assigning Christina Swarns, Esq., Office of the Appellate Defender, as counsel to prosecute the appeal; and a motion having been made to relieve such counsel and substitute retained counsel, to enlarge the time to perfect the appeal, and to continue the poor person relief previously granted, 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 relieving Christina Swarns, Esq., as assigned counsel and otherwise continuing the poor person relief previously granted. That branch of the motion which seeks to substitute retained counsel is denied as unnecessary. Appellant's time in which to perfect the appeal is enlarged until the March 2020 Term.
ENTERED: October 24, 2019
__________ CLERK
Present - Hon. Sallie Manzanet-Daniels, Justice Presiding, Judith J. Gische Troy K. Webber Peter H. Moulton, Justices
M-7059
Ind. No. 3721/10