Opinion
Motion No: M-7489
11-14-2019
The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Jahaziha Pough, Defendant-Appellant.
An order of this Court having been entered on February 28, 2017(M-6653), granting defendant leave to prosecute, as a poor person, the appeal taken from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Bronx County, rendered on or about March 30, 2015, and assigning Rosemary Herbert, Esq., predecessor counsel to Christina Swarns, Esq., Office of the Appellate Defender, 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 to reinstatement,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due deliberation having been had thereon, It is ordered that the motion is granted to the extent of deeming the appeal withdrawn and is otherwise denied.
ENTERED: November 14, 2019
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Present - Hon. Judith J. Gische, Justice Presiding,Peter Tom Barbara R. Kapnick Cynthia S. Kern Peter H. Moulton, Justices
M-7489
Ind. No. 1355/13