Opinion
Motion No. 2023-00592 Ind. No. 2188/16Case No. 2018-1144
04-18-2023
The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Wendia Pugh, Defendant-Appellant.
Unpublished Opinion
MOTION DECISION
PRESENT: Hon. Dianne T. Renwick, Acting Presiding Justice, David Friedman Peter H. Moulton Manuel J. Mendez Bahaati E. Pitt-Burke, Justices.
An order of this Court having been entered on January 16, 2018 (M-6318) granting defendant leave to prosecute, as a poor person, the appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court, New York County, rendered on or about April 06, 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due deliberation having been had thereon, It is ordered that the motion is granted to the extent of deeming the appeal withdrawn.