Opinion
Motion No. 2022-04567 SCI Nos. 2417/162418/16 Case No. 2018-03380
01-26-2023
The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Maribel Pizarro, Defendant-Appellant.
Unpublished Opinion
MOTION DECISION
PRESENT: Hon. Barbara R. Kapnick, Lizbeth González Tanya R. Kennedy Manuel J. Mendez John R. Higgitt, Justice Presiding, Justices.
An order of this Court having been entered on December 04, 2018 (M-5257) granting defendant leave to prosecute, as a poor person, the appeal taken from the judgment of the Supreme Court, Bronx County, rendered on or about March 29, 2018, and assigning Justine M. Luongo, 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due deliberation having been had thereon, It is ordered that the motion is granted to the extent of deeming the appeal withdrawn.