Opinion
Motion No. 2022-05237 Ind. No. 1094/16No. 2018-587
02-14-2023
The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Patrick Napolitano, Defendant-Appellant.
Unpublished Opinion
MOTION DECISION
Present - Hon. Barbara R. Kapnick, Justice Presiding, Cynthia S. Kern Ellen Gesmer Saliann Scarpulla Julio Rodriguez III, Justices.
An order of this Court having been entered on October 24, 2017 (M-5091) 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 December 19, 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due deliberation having been had thereon, It is ordered that the motion is granted to the extent of deeming the appeal withdrawn.