Opinion
Motion No. 2023-02246,,Ind. No. 2192/18 Docket No. 2016BX046406 Case No. 2019-1959
06-27-2023
The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Jasaira Ortiz, Defendant-Appellant.
Unpublished Opinion
MOTION DECISION
Present - Hon. Troy K. Webber, Jeffrey K. Oing Anil C. Singh Martin Shulman John R. Higgitt, Justice Presiding, Justices.
An order of this Court having been entered on April 18, 2019 (M-1121) granting defendant leave to prosecute, as a poor person, the appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Bronx County, rendered on or about December 07, 2018 under Indictment No. 2192/18, and assigning Janel E. Sabel, Esq., as predecessor to Twyla Carter, Esq., The Legal Aid Society, as counsel to prosecute the appeal; and a subsequent order of this Court having been entered on March 16, 2023, extending the aforesaid order of assignment to an appeal having been taken by defendant from a judgment, same Court, rendered on the same date under Docket No. 2016BX046406 (Motion No. 2023-00497);
And assigned counsel for the appeals from both judgments 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It is ordered that the motion is granted to the extent of deeming the appeal withdrawn.