Opinion
Motion No. 2023-00657 Ind. No. 2594/15Case No. 2017-1244
04-04-2023
The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Carl Mootoosingh, Defendant-Appellant.
Unpublished Opinion
MOTION DECISION
PRESENT: Hon. Sallie Manzanet-Daniels, Justice Presiding, Jeffrey K. Oing Tanya R. Kennedy Martin Shulman Julio Rodriguez III, Justices.
An order of this Court having been entered on March 21, 2017 (M-780) 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 July 27, 2016, and assigning Seymour W. James, Jr., Esq., as predecessor to Twyla Carter, Esq., The Legal Aid Society, as counsel to prosecute the appeal; and a motion having been made to relieve 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due deliberation having been had thereon, It is ordered that the motion is granted to the extent of deeming the appeal withdrawn.