Opinion
Motion No. 2023-01687 Ind. No. 2400/15Case No. 2018-2482
06-01-2023
The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Donovan Owens, Defendant-Appellant.
Unpublished Opinion
MOTION DECISION
Present - Hon. Barbara R. Kapnick, Justice Presiding, Cynthia S. Kern Lizbeth González Manuel J. Mendez Julio Rodriguez III, Justices.
An order of this Court having been entered on May 24, 2018 (M-1800) granting defendant leave to prosecute, as a poor person, the appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Bronx County, rendered on or about November 17, 2017, and assigning Seymour W. James, Jr., 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due deliberation having been had thereon, It is ordered that the motion is granted to the extent of deeming the appeal withdrawn.